Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Errno 27 - File too large

[Greg Freemyer]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 01:34, Ben Escoto wrote:
> >>>>> "MP" == Matej Pfajfar <address@hidden>
> >>>>> wrote the following on Thu, 28 Aug 2003 14:55:37 +0200
> 
>   MP> I get an error Errno 27 [File too large] while rdiff-backup is
>   MP> writing its rdiff-backup.tmp.somenumber file. When I checked the
>   MP> file was indeed over 2,5 GB.
>     ...
>   MP> Is it possible that the error is raised on the windows side of
>   MP> things?
> 
> According to the message at:
> 
> http://mail.nongnu.org/archive/html/rdiff-backup-users/2003-07/msg00008.html
> 
> cygwin has only recently added large file support.  So probably it's a
> cygwin thing.
> 
I've been following the cygwin list and large file support is still
experimental, but they have released 3 test releases that support it.

The main developer proposed making it the stable release recently and
suddenly 4 or 5 bug reports came in.  So I'm not sure how soon it will
be released, but they are certainly trying to get it out asap.

I don't know if there is a cygwin python that uses the new large file
support or not.  (Does rdiff-backup need python to support large files,
or just gcc?)

Greg
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Greg Freemyer