Subject: Re: NetBSD, apple fibre-channel card & 2.8TB Xserve-RAID
To: NetBSD Kernel Technical Discussion List <tech-kern@NetBSD.ORG>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/04/2004 18:41:48
>> (1) Create a big file. [...]
>> (2) Compress this file. I used gzip --fast [...]
>> (3) Uncompress the file to /dev/null. Do you get an error? I do.
> Yikes! Indeed I do!
> a: 2147483647 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 27 # (Cyl. 0 - 131071*)
> [console]<@> # gzcat < biggest-file.gz > /dev/null
>
> gzcat: stdin: invalid compressed data--length error
> [console]<@> #
I find this _very_ disturbing. Your partition is actually below the
1TB mark, albeit not by much, which means that most of my theories -
and I think the theory put forth about it being a sign-extension bug in
the FFS code - are now out the window.
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