Re: Filesize limit exceeded on ext3

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 10:01:04AM -0800, David Brodbeck <brodbd@u.washington.edu> was heard to say:
>
> On Nov 16, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Jeff D wrote:
>> What testing suite are you using for this?  Have you tried to use dd to 
>> create a file larger than this?  I'm going to guess what you are seeing 
>> here is file size limit of the application you are using rather than ext3.
>
> I think so too.  I bet this is an old bit of code, or maybe an old binary 
> statically compiled against old libraries.

  In particular, you want to look at calls to:

    lseek
    stat
    truncate/ftruncate
    tmpfile, fopen, freopen (they create a FILE* that doesn't support
                             64-bit sizes)
    ... FILE* versions of these.

  I may have missed some, this is just from trawling the libc
documentation.  In general, anything dealing with file sizes and offsets
is a possible culprit.

  Daniel