Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Result too large [Errno 34] on OS X

[Andrew Ferguson]

Ilari Scheinin wrote:
> I was also getting the 'Result too large' error, and found Andrew's  
> suggestion of running rdiff-backup with the option -v6. That way I  
> was able to pinpoint the error to this file:
> 
> Regular copying ('Applications', 'Remote Buddy.app', 'Contents',  
> 'PlugIns', 'NetNewsWire.rbscriptedbehaviour', 'Contents',  
> 'Resources', 'English.lproj', 'Localizable.strings') to /Volumes/ 
> Turva/Applications/Remote Buddy.app/Contents/PlugIns/ 
> NetNewsWire.rbscriptedbehaviour/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/ 
> rdiff-backup.tmp.4177
> 
> I excluded /Applications/Remote Buddy.app and I am currently running  
> the backup again, and hopefully it will now finish without errors. I  
> also tried to look at the file, but got these errors:
> 
> $ more Localizable.strings
> read error  (press RETURN)
> 
> $ cat Localizable.strings
> cat: Localizable.strings: Result too large

Ok, I have tracked this error into the Mac OS X kernel and it looks like
the ERANGE / "Result too large" message comes up when your HFS+
filesystem is corrupted on that file.

I have updated rdiff-backup in CVS so that it displays a more helpful
error message when it encounters this problem.


Andrew



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