[OpenAFS] Linux + 32bit files + butc writing to file = obnoxiousness

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 9 May 2003, Robin Yamaguchi wrote:

> My backups write to file, and regardless of what i put in tapeconfig, butc
> can't write more then 2GB.  I am running 2.4.20-8, ext3, afs 1.2.9 for
> redhat 9, so I should be able to surpass this filesize limit.  Is this
> limit hardcoded in butc?

You need the right flags at compile-time. I think we have a patch for this
but if so it would be "didn't make it into 1.2.9"

> about 3 gigs worth of localfiles on the afs server, none of which was afs
> data, onto a mounted nfs share.  This makes me wonder if afs is crashing in
> relation to high CPU usage, not to just butc.

Did you get a core?