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List:       amanda-hackers
Subject:    Re: MAXFILESIZE
From:       Joachim Knoke <knoke () uni-paderborn ! de>
Date:       1997-07-28 9:51:05
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On Thu, 24 Jul 1997, Steve Bower wrote:

> I put together a patch for 2.3.0.3 that tries to handle maximum file
> size limitations.  Rather than trying to pre-compute the limit, it just
> writes to the holding disk till it fails... :-) Then it checks to see if
> the failure looks like it's because of a file size limitation (on
> Solaris, errno gets EINVAL).  If so, it opens an additional (I call it
> "extended") holding file and continues writing to that.  If that one
> fills up, it opens another one, and so on...
> 
> I installed the modified code in January, but since I'm no longer
> working there, I can't tell if it's still running... :-(
> 
> I do have the patch with me, and as soon as I get my new Sun with
> appropriately-sized disks for testing (should be next week), I'll port
> the patch to 2.3.0.4 and submit it.
> 

Is the patch ready?

Or any way to teach Solaris 2.6 (with Filesize greater than 2 GB
supported) to handle bigger files??


Bye,

		Achim

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