[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,

I have an iso file that is 2GB on a LAN connected Mandrake 10.2OE.
However when the file is viewed over the LAN, konqueror reports it as
16TB and says it will take 24hrs to transfer. Other files in the same
folder are ok. I've heard of bloat ware but this is ridiculous. Any
ideas as to what is wrong?

Dumb question - how are you viewing the file? (smb mount, nfs mount, ftp server, etc?) It is possible this is variable type conversion error. It sounds like something is using an unsigned intiger to report the file size, and it is being treated as a signed intiger later. Then this is being converted to a signed long, and given to konqueror as an unsigned long as the file size.

File sizes can be a problem when they get to be 2GB on 16 bit processors. They can be a problem for smb file systems, because Windows 95 OSR1 and before didn't suport files larger then 2GB (or partitions larger then 2GB.) So there is a problem reporting file sizes.

Mikkel
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