On Thursday, October 11, 2001 12:10:18 PM -0400 Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: +------ | | > send_files failed to open .../data1/intlmv.data/histimv.rec: | > Value too large for defined data type | | Is that Solaris 8? I ask not just because you should have mentioned | this in the bug report (tsk tsk :-) but that I've seen that error and | it *didn't* have anything to do with file size (or rsync) but instead | had to do with files having "negative" timestamps - often created by | unzip. Just something to keep in mind, when resubmitting your question | with enough information to actually make sense of it... +-----X8
That's nearly correct. In NFS the time fields are defined as a 32 bit unsigned integers while in Solaris it is a 32 bit signed integer and hence if the most significant bit is set in the NFS metadata then it cannot be represented by Solaris. Versions of Solaris earlier than 7 were buggy in their handling of NFS times, many other operating systems still are. There is never a problem with local files. /Michael -- This space intentionally left non-blank.
