Re: Large-file corruption. ReiserFS? VFS?

Rogier Wolff
2003-09-13T06:51:54Z

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 03:00:17PM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> On Sep 11, 2003 16:56 -0400, Kyle Rose wrote:
> > > I would guess that mkisofs isn't opening the file with O_LARGEFILE.
> > > It probably only expected to write 600MB output files. Purely a
> > > guess though.
> >
> > Thanks for the suggestion, but it is, in fact, opening with
> > O_LARGEFILE:
> >
> > open("/mnt/angband/krose/tmp/862839.img", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3
>
> True, and O_LARGEFILE would have bit you at 2GB and not 4GB... If you are
> doing output redirected from the shell, then it can't be a seek issue
> either.

... but mkisofs will NOT be seeking, as we commonly burn CDs while
mkisofs is providing the data through a pipe.

Roger.

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