Value too large for defined data type

[Michael Salmon]

On Wednesday, October 09, 2002 07:26:44 AM -0700 Jeff.Leuschner at adic.com 
wrote:
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| Howdy,
|
| 	I am just starting to use rsync and now have an rsync server set up
| to back up our various machines. I recently started getting an error that
| is confusing and I can't find info documented on it. I searched the news
| group and found it mentioned but no solution yet.
|
| I get the error when sync'ing from a Solaris 8 machine to my Solaris 8
| server.
|
| stat space/sunpci/drives/F.drive/docs/StorNext/LinuxPort/devfs.README.txt
| : Value too large for defined data type
| stat space/sunpci/drives/F.drive/docs/StorNext/StorNextNotes.doc : Value
| too large for defined data type
|
| I also see the same error going from our IRIX 6.5.15 machine, and the
| error is seen on a directory vs a file:
| stat apps1/fsdev.cliff/jleuschner/phoenix/ver_2.1.0B57/phtm/ver : Value
| too large for defined data type
| stat apps1/fsdev.cliff/jleuschner/phoenix/ver_2.1.0B57/phtm/ver/CVS :
| Value too large for defined data type
|
|
| Any ideas as to why this is occurring and what I can do to get around
| this? I appears that the file gets sync'd anyway. In addition the files
| vary in sizes, some of which do not appear to be too large.
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It could be the times that are too large, particularly if NFS is involved. 
NFS defines times as being 32 bit unsigned values but Unix time is a 32 bit 
signed value and hence times before 1970 cannot be used in NFS.

/Michael
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