Subject: Re: NFS to Solaris: Value too large for defined data type on 0 sized files
To: David Wetzel <dave@turbocat.de>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/01/2000 21:24:10
On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 11:07:42AM +0200, David Wetzel wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a problem with some files which I mount from my NetBSD 1.4Z box to an
> SunOS 5.7 Sparc.
>
> on the NFS server and my OPENSTEP and MacOS X machines, all is fine:
>
> alice# ls -l /Net/alice/raid/Users/dave/projects/DKG/App/cancer/LogOutPage.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave wheel 219 Jul 5 16:06
> /Net/alice/raid/Users/dave/projects/DKG/App/cancer/LogOutPage.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave wheel 537 Jul 5 18:44
> /Net/alice/raid/Users/dave/projects/DKG/App/cancer/LogOutPage.m
>
> /Net/alice/raid/Users/dave/projects/DKG/App/cancer/LogOutPage.wo:
> total 3
> -rw-r----- 1 dave wheel 356 Aug 1 10:47 .dir3_0.wmd
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave wheel 77 Jul 5 14:14 LogOutPage.html
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave wheel 0 Jul 5 14:14 LogOutPage.wod
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave wheel 93 Jul 5 14:14 LogOutPage.woo
>
>
> But on the Sun:
>
> [dave@cleopatra cancer]$ ls -l
> /Net/alice/raid/Users/dave/projects/DKG/App/cancer/LogOutPage.*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave 219 Jul 5 16:06
> /Net/alice/raid/Users/dave/projects/DKG/App/cancer/LogOutPage.h
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave 537 Jul 5 18:44
> /Net/alice/raid/Users/dave/projects/DKG/App/cancer/LogOutPage.m
>
> ls:
> /Net/alice/raid/Users/dave/projects/DKG/App/cancer/LogOutPage.wo/LogOutPage.wod:
> Value too large for defined data type
> /Net/alice/raid/Users/dave/projects/DKG/App/cancer/LogOutPage.wo:
> total 2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave 77 Jul 5 14:14 LogOutPage.html
> -rw-r--r-- 1 dave 93 Jul 5 14:14 LogOutPage.woo
>
>
> It seems that the sun has problems with 0 sized files. I mountet the
> disk with "mount alice:/raid /Net/alice/raid"
> Is this wrong?
No, I don't think the issue is with 0 sized files. I can see this on a
Solaris2.7 NFS server with files that are not empty. BTW, this file
wasn't created by a NetBSD client - but they were created before
I upgraded the server to 2.7. It looks like a solaris 2.7 issue ...
--
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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