[OpenAFS] AFS file too large error

[Paul.Bustos@cexp.com]

I received the following error when trying to write an image to an AFS
directory: cp: cannot create regular file
`/afs/.eway.cexp.com/catalog/1/pi04_131283_oe.jpg': File too large

This is a very misleading error. 1. the volume had plenty of free space, 2.
the quotas are large enough to hold the files. The first 75 out of 100 files
copied before getting this error. After some investigation I could copy,
create, delete multiple files in this directory as long as the filename was
less than 12 characters. I could not copy this file in with its current
filename length. I could rename the file and it would copy fine.

This problem appears to be due to filename length. I could not get the file
in the AFS directory at all with its current length. After deleting some
files in the volume/directory from 31,000 files down to 28,000 files I could
copy the images.

Is there some sort of table that tracks AFS files much like the inode does?
If so is it possible that this file filled up some space in AFS that
resulted in this error? Has anyone ran into this problem before?


 OpenAFS 1.2.11 built  2004-01-14
Redhat 7.2
Paul Bustos
paul.bustos@cexp.com