[OpenAFS-devel] clients able to create corrupt file on non-largefile server

[Neulinger, Nathan]

I take that back... rsync is just stupid and thinks it's reading the
file but isn't... Very weird.

-- Nathan

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Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-6679
UMR Information Technology             Fax: (573) 341-4216
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> Neulinger, Nathan
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:51 AM
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> on non-largefile server
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> I've got a volume that is unable to be moved or dumped, yet salvager
> thinks it's fine.=20
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> It appears that the cause of this problem is that a windows client
> attempted to create an over-2GB file, which failed.=20
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> The current state of the volume is that it has a bogus directory entry
> for a 2GB-truncated file, which gives an I/O Error when attempting to
> access. It's almost like their is a very slight disconnect=20
> between what
> the file/vol server thinks is a LARGEFILE, and what the O/S does.=20
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> Strangely enough, rsync is able to read the file, but cp is not.
> Probably a question of whather cp is largefile enabled on this old OS
> build.
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> I'm not sure there's really anything to do here, but I'd be aware that
> there may be a off-by-one error or something in size limitations for
> large/non-large files somewhere.
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> -- Nathan
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> University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-6679
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