Um.  Windows clients do not support files larger than 2GB.
The protocol the Windows CIFS client uses to speak to the AFS Client
Service does not permit the representation of files > 2GB.

Is there any other details you can provide?


Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> I take that back... rsync is just stupid and thinks it's reading the
> file but isn't... Very weird.
> 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
>>Neulinger, Nathan
>>Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 10:51 AM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Subject: [OpenAFS-devel] clients able to create corrupt file 
>>on non-largefile server
>>
>>I've got a volume that is unable to be moved or dumped, yet salvager
>>thinks it's fine. 
>>
>>It appears that the cause of this problem is that a windows client
>>attempted to create an over-2GB file, which failed. 
>>
>>The current state of the volume is that it has a bogus directory entry
>>for a 2GB-truncated file, which gives an I/O Error when attempting to
>>access. It's almost like their is a very slight disconnect 
>>between what
>>the file/vol server thinks is a LARGEFILE, and what the O/S does. 
>>
>>Strangely enough, rsync is able to read the file, but cp is not.
>>Probably a question of whather cp is largefile enabled on this old OS
>>build.
>>
>>I'm not sure there's really anything to do here, but I'd be aware that
>>there may be a off-by-one error or something in size limitations for
>>large/non-large files somewhere.
>>
>>-- Nathan
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