Alternatively, you can re-create your filesystem on mkfs with the big file option turned on. (ie -a bf=true) and that should help also. We frequently have large files over 2G.
sri On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 08:27:03PM -0700, Eric M. Johnston wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to relate the solution to a problem I was having to hopefully > save someone else a day of frustration. I'm using rsync-2.5.5 on AIX 4.3, > compiled with gcc 2.95.3. The file I was sync'ing was very large (>2GB). > Despite being configured with --enable-largefiles (which #defines > _LARGE_FILES properly for AIX), and despite the fact that the initial > transfer of said file worked fine, I would always get the following error > when trying to sync up the file: > > write failed on myfile.txt.3 : Error 0 > rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(272) > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (48 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150) > > This would always happen when rsync had transferred >2GB. It seems that > AIX's write() doesn't like to set errno until the second time you try to > call write(). So, after adding in an additional call to write(), I saw the > following: > > write failed on myfile.txt.3 : File too large > rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at receiver.c(272) > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (48 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150) > > After verifying ulimit wasn't the problem, adding a variety of rprintf()'s, > searching the Web in vain, writing a test program, etc., I finally figured > it out: mkstemp() on AIX 4.3 doesn't appear to support large files. Since > the call to mkstemp() replaces a call to open(), rsync would fail when the > temporary file it creates for the transfer exceeds 2GB. > > My solution to this problem was to simply #undef HAVE_SECURE_MKSTEMP in the > config.h created for AIX. rsync is much happier with this. It seems bad to > me that AIX's mkstemp() exhibits this behavior; perhaps someone who knows > how to report such a problem would tell IBM? > > Eric > -- > To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
