[OpenAFS] AFS file too large error

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 Paul.Bustos@cexp.com wrote:

> 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?

You have this problem, aptly described by Todd DeSantis, which there's no 
way that I could describe better:
https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2002-September/005812.html