Ftpd problems

[Andre Oppermann]

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.

-- 
Andre