[pri.blu@iadonisi.to: Re: large file problem in rh7.1]

[pri.blu at iadonisi.to (Paul Iadonisi)]

*sigh* I hit reply instead of reply-to-all again.
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:46:16 -0500
From: Paul Iadonisi <pri.blu at iadonisi.to>
To: Ken Gosier <ken at kg293.net>
Subject: Re: large file problem in rh7.1
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  Curious.  I automount (nfs) my home directory at home.  The server uses
ext3 (Red Hat 7.2 all around).  I have this problem as well, but *only* on
the automounted filesystem.  A typical example is the Java SDK 1.3.1 downloaded
from Sun's site.  It comes as a .bin file, which is just some encoded binary
file prepended with a script to unravel it into an rpm
(j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386-rpm.bin).  You 'chmod +x' it and then run it
like a script.  It fails when I run it from my automounted home directory,
but if I copy it to /tmp, it always success.
  I've seen this in lots of other cases and it nothing ever shows up in
the syslog of either the server or the client.  The working around I've been
using is cat'ing the file to /dev/null:

cat j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386-rpm.bin > /dev/null

after which the file resides in cache, it seems, and it then runs fine.  I
have no idea why cat works and nothing else does, but I swear, it works without
fail.
  Very bizarre.  Sorry I can't offer help, but I'm just confirming that I've
seen very similar problems.

On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 05:06:07AM -0500, Ken Gosier wrote:
> Hi, I have a large (80 MB) mp3 on my rh7.1 system , and it keeps giving me
> problems.
> 
> If I try to gzip, compress, cp, rcp, ftp, basically do anything with it, I
> get back 'Input/output error', after about 50 MB of the activity is
> completed.
> 
> I also downloaded the lxsplit utility to break it into several small
> files. This also worked till about 50 MB, but then hung indefinitely.
> 
> If it's helpful:
> lxsplit hung after 50253824 bytes
> cp      died after 50257920 bytes.
> gzip -1 died after 50053120 bytes.
> gzip -9 died after 49971200 bytes.
> 
> Problem with rh, or possibly something funny about the file? Many thanks
> for any help--
> 
> -- 
> Ken Gosier
> ken at kg293.net
> 
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-Paul Iadonisi
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 Ever see a penguin fly?  --  Try Linux.
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