Re: [Monotone-devel] Size Limits?

[Timothy Brownawell]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 23:20 +0200, Ulf Ochsenfahrt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I get a weird error message when using monotone on my super-mega-giga 
> sized project:
> 
> mtn: error: error accessing file /home/ulfjack/.monotone/heavymetal.db: 
> Value too large for defined data type
> 
> I get this error message whenever I try to access the database in any 
> way whatsoever, even ls branches gives this message. The database is 
> 3428245504 bytes, or 3.2 Gigabytes in size, the last successfull commit 
> was about 1.4 Gigabytes.
> 
> I am currently using:
> monotone 0.31 (base revision: 1bd1fe1e811dce82bee09b9f0effca3225bd1cee)
> 
> Any ideas as to what may have caused this, and how to recover the db?

That's from when monotone calls stat() on the db file, so it can give a
friendly error message if it doesn't exist or isn't a file. If you
recompile with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 or update to 21292f3f... the error
should go away.


-- 
Timothy

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