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

[Rick Macklem]

Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> 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?
> 
Sorry, I have no idea. Maybe one of the ZFS folks knows when ACLs
are generated. (It might happen as a side effect of a "chmod". You
could experiment with that?)

rick
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