SUMMARY: Inaccurate file size for large files

From: Cohen, Laurence (Laurence_Cohen@sra.com)
Date: Wed Jan 26 2005 - 14:40:24 EST


Very quick response! Basically Mike Salehi and Tom Schmidt indicated that I
am probably seeing a sparse file which has a larger address space than the
actual size of the file. According to Mike, this can happen with database
files, which this file happens to be, and this isn't a problem.

Thanks to everyone who responded!

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> From: Cohen, Laurence
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:27 PM
> To: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org'
> Subject: Inaccurate file size for large files
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I tracked down a file on one of our file systems that is indicating it is
over 350GB in size. This obviously makes no sense, as I believe the
limitation of a file is 32GB. Has anyone heard of a bug that causing the file
size to be misrepresented when it reaches 32GB? I looked on SunSolve but
could not find anything.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Laurence H. Cohen
> System Administrator
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