Hi, On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:24:17PM +0200, paul_pot@nl.sonymusic.com wrote: > I have a problem with the deletion of a file on a 7.2 machine (IBM, SMP) > The file sits on a raid5 disk with an ext3 filesystem. > [somesystem@someuser]# cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.4.9-34custom (root@somesystem) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 > (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-108.7.2)) #1 SMP Mon Sep 2 11:37:22 CEST 2002 > > [someuser@somesystem]# ls -il > total 1073747024 > 32477 -rw-rw-r-- 1 test test 644212388 Aug 30 23:40 test.log Well, that large a file will always take a while to delete... > [someuser@somesystem]# file test.log > test.log: can't stat `test.log' (Value too large for defined data type). I wonder if "file" isn't large-file-aware... (checks) Yep, on a 7.2 system, "file" opens with the flags O_RDONLY; with 7.3, it uses O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE. > When I do a rm -f test.log, the system crashes; messages fly over the > console, but no output on a ssh session. We need the log messages to debug this. Cheers, Stephen
