CNFS + FreeBSD + cnfsstat "read:file too large"

[Russ Allbery]

Callum Duncan <callum at passport.ca> writes:

> So I dunno... maybe something with cnfsstat to keep an eye on.  As for
> the Perl setup, it's just the version that comes w/ FreeBSD (4.0)

> ' version 5.005_03 built for i386-freebsd  '

> But seems weird to me that it would matter about the 'largefile support'
> - given that the size of the cycbuff files themselves never changes -
> only the contents of those files internally.  But I am neither a Perl
> nor INN guru (yet) so...

May have something to do with cnfsstat trying to find the most recent
message.  You can read a >2GB file fine with code that isn't large-file
aware unless you try to read beyond the 2GB point.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>