Ftpd problems

[Yar Tikhiy]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 02:15:38PM +0100, Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 06:25:34PM +0200, Iassen Anadoliev wrote:
> > > Chuck Swiger writes:
> > >
> > > >Iassen Anadoliev wrote:
> > > >>Hello guys i hope  this is the appropriate list so...
> > > >>
> > > >>I am running a ftp server and have some problems with large files. While
> > > >>syncing files over 4GB with rsync there is no problem:
> > > >>
> > > >>ls -lha
> > > >>-rw-------  1 support  support   4.2G Nov 14 19:46 somefile.data
> > > >>
> > > >>But when i try to download the file it fails:
> > > >
> > > >If you can identify more specificly which side is having the problem, it's
> > > >probably worth filing a PR about it.  Try using fetch or curl instead, to
> > > >see
> > > >whether another client does OK, or try using proftpd to test another FTP
> > > >server.
> > > Never sent PR before. So trying to find PR that already describe my
> > > problem I found this:
> > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/89100
> > 
> > We seem to have got a bug in sendfile(2).  Besides bin/89100, there
> > is kern/92243 on it.  The problem is rather unpleasant and it's in
> > the kernel, not in ftpd(8).
> 
> You should make Alan Cox (alc@) or Tor Egge (tegge@)aware of this problem.
> They're our VM gurus.

OK, just got some tech details for the gurus...

-- 
Yar