[cobalt-developers] CMU and ~900M files

[Jeff Bilcki <jeff.bilicki@xxxxxxx>]

There is a problem in CMU version 2.27 where if a file is larger than
900 megabytes, CMU will go into a endless loop until it runs out of
memory.  CMU will start to use spanning archives at 900M, it will get
caught in a recursion loop if one file size is bigger than the span
size.

If you need to fix this problem for your system, run the following
commands as root:
$ wget ftp://ftp.cobaltnet.com/pub/users/jeffb/cmu/archive.patch
$ patch -p0 < archive.patch

Thanks to Bruce Bennett for reporting this and helping me trouble shoot
it.  This will be fixed in the next release of CMU.
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Jeff Bilicki
Software Engineer
Sun Cobalt Server Appliances
Sun Microsystems, Inc.