large file problem in rh7.1

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

A while ago, when backing up my wife's system, I found that the tar file was too large. It fit fine in 
the directory, but any attempt to manipulate it resulted in an error. In my case, it was something 
like "failure to stat". The issue was that there was a hard limit on the size of an individual file, and 
the stat(2) system call was the guy that caused the errors. Not sure if this is related, but possibly if 
you do an ls -l on the file. In my case, even an ls -l fails on that file. I was able to create the file, 
just not be able to untar it or anything else. 
 
On 27 Feb 2002 at 7:30, Ken Gosier wrote:

> 
> --- John Abreau <jabr at blu.org> wrote:
> > 
> > The first thing that comes to mind is that maybe the
> > filesystem you're
> > doing this in has only 50 MB free?
> > 
> 
> 
> The filesystem should have enough space, tho I'll check on
> that. (And will feel dumb if that's it. :)
> 
> But, the thing is, when I tried to upload (ftp) this file
> to my web site, it also stopped at 50 MB, and I know my web
> account has more space than that. Does ftp upload create a
> tmp file somewhere?
> 
> =====
> Ken Gosier
> ken_gosier at yahoo.com
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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