Re: "Value too large for defined data type"?

[Christoph Simon <datageo@terra.com.br>]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 22:27:09 +0200
"Martin F. Krafft" <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:

> also sprach Christoph Simon (on Tue, 03 Jul 2001 04:54:15PM -0300):
> > Well, you can remove it. And then, before restoring it from tape
> > again, try to get large file support in the kernel. Maybe there are
> > other ways, but installing 2.4.x (and updating the utilities) should
> > be enough.
> 
> nope:
> 
> madduck@piper:/mnt$ uname -a
> Linux piper 2.4.5 #1 Mon Jul 2 18:46:48 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
> madduck@piper:/mnt$ dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024k count=2060
> 2060+0 records in
> 2060+0 records out
> madduck@piper:/mnt$ ls -la
> ls: testfile: Value too large for defined data type
> total 8
> [...]
> 
> 2.4.5 apparently can't handle > 2Gb files, and as someone said, this
> is most likely a filesystem issue anyway...

2.4.5 can handle it, but maybe you didn't update the tools:

	$ uname -a
	Linux 2.4.5 #1 Sun May 27 11:18:54 BRT 2001 i686 unknown
	$ dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024k count=2060
	2060+0 records in
	2060+0 records out
	baco$ ls -l testfile 
	-rw-r--r--    1 1001   1001   2160066560 Jul  3 17:49 testfile
	$

Maybe you should have a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes

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Christoph Simon
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