Re: [Help-gnunet] files > 2 gb

[Christian Grothoff]

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On Sunday 20 October 2002 09:58 am, Christian Drechsler wrote:
> this workes out of the box here. but if i try to start gnunetd now with my
> old large database, it stops with
> Oct 20 15:35:09 getDatabase: failed to open database file
> /home/zottel//.gnunet/data/content.gdb with error: File seek error
>
> if i use the version without LFS, gnunetd first starts without problems
> but crashes a little later. why is that now? maybe within the file there
> are inidices pointing beyond the 2gb line that turn around to small values
> with the old 32bit integer, and as the file never got bigger than 2 gb,
> now they point beyond the end of the file? that's the only answer i can
> imagine. as compilation and stuff worked without the slightest problems,
> i'm quite positive that the database could now grow beyond 2 gb. i
> probably won't be able to repair the old one, but what the heck ... ;-)
>
> comments?

I would agree with your conclusions. I'll put a link to this posting somewhere 
on the webpage such that others with the same problem can find it.

Christian
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