issue with large inodes numbers in at least gnucash and pan (32-bit versions).

Roger Heflin rogerheflin at gmail.com
Sat Aug 31 02:21:19 UTC 2013


I have recently created a new 6tb XFS filesystem.

After this gnucash, pan and a number of other utilities (on one of the
32-bit machines) start failing to work and complaining about value too
large for defined data type.

I have found someone else that indicated this ment that the tools
needed to be complied with this flag:

-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

This samba alleged bug was from the same issue.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7707

Currently these are the only 2 applications I have so far found...this
is on a fedora 19 NFS mounted 32-bit machine.

I suspect that I may find a few more applications that have the same
issue, I have a workaround of using the application on a full 64-bit
machine that does not appear to have this issue (I am assuming that
full 64bit uses 64bit for file offset by default), but whoever is
running the compile streams for the 32-bit rpms may need to start
setting this flag.

Most of the default tools (cp, mv and others) appear to be working
right, it is just a few things that are acting up.


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