"File too large" error when appending to a file of 130 MB

[Jeremie Le Hen]

Hi Rick,

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:46:42PM -0500, Rick Macklem wrote:
> > This is a 8.2 32 bits jail on a 8.2 amd64 host. In the jail, /home is
> > a
> > nullfs mounted ZFS filesystem. The mailbox is not that big:
> > 
> > % felucia:jlh$ ls -l Mail/mbox1
> > % -rw-------+ 1 jlh jlh 138744672 Feb 19 11:46 Mail/mbox1
> > 
> > 
> > (( For some unknown reason some ACL keep appearing, but the problem if
> > still there
> > anyway if I do setfacl -b on it:
> > 
> > % felucia:jlh$ getfacl Mail/mbox1
> > % # file: Mail/mbox1
> > % # owner: jlh
> > % # group: jlh
> > % owner@:rw-p--aARWcCos:------:allow
> > % group@:------a-R-c--s:------:allow
> > % everyone@:------a-R-c--s:------:allow
> > ))
> > 
> > 
> > Does anyone have an idea about this error? Besides, if someone knows
> > why those ACLs keep appearing, I would be glad to know it :).
> > 
> AFAIK, NFSv4 style ACLs are always enabled for ZFS and cannot be turned
> off.

Weirdly, some of my mailboxes don't have such ACLs, including some I've
recently written into.  How is it possible?

-- 
Jeremie Le Hen

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