[Aide] maximum size of files that aide can record?

[Adam Funk]

I got the following warnings at the top of yesterday's aide report:

do_md(): open() for /var/scratch/backups/win0-2011-03-08.bkf failed: Value too large for defined data type
do_md(): open() for /var/scratch/backups/win0-2011-02-09.bkf failed: Value too large for defined data type

Both files were just over 2 GB, but the second one has been in that
directory for about a month. (They were uncompressed Windows backup
files copied over the LAN; I'm running aide "0.14.2-1ubuntu2".) Do
the warnings actually mean the files are too big for aide to record?

[Hannes von Haugwitz]

Post by Adam Funk
do_md(): open() for /var/scratch/backups/win0-2011-03-08.bkf failed: Value too large for defined data type
do_md(): open() for /var/scratch/backups/win0-2011-02-09.bkf failed: Value too large for defined data type
Both files were just over 2 GB, but the second one has been in that
directory for about a month. (They were uncompressed Windows backup
files copied over the LAN; I'm running aide "0.14.2-1ubuntu2".) Do
the warnings actually mean the files are too big for aide to record?

This bug is caused by an error in the configure script and has been
fixed in git[0] and aide 0.16a1.

There is also an debian bug report about this issue[1]. I've uploaded a
fixed debian package to debian unstable this morning[2].

Greetings

Hannes

[0] http://aide.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=aide/aide;a=commit;h=92c7878
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615111
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aide/news/20110311T101709Z.html

[Adam Funk]

Post by Hannes von Haugwitz

Post by Adam Funk
do_md(): open() for /var/scratch/backups/win0-2011-03-08.bkf failed: Value too large for defined data type
do_md(): open() for /var/scratch/backups/win0-2011-02-09.bkf failed: Value too large for defined data type
Both files were just over 2 GB, but the second one has been in that
directory for about a month. (They were uncompressed Windows backup
files copied over the LAN; I'm running aide "0.14.2-1ubuntu2".) Do
the warnings actually mean the files are too big for aide to record?

This bug is caused by an error in the configure script and has been
fixed in git[0] and aide 0.16a1.
There is also an debian bug report about this issue[1]. I've uploaded a
fixed debian package to debian unstable this morning[2].

Thanks for the information.

I'm surprised the error first turned up 2 days ago, since I upgraded
to 0.14.2 on 26 January and one of the big files has been there since
9 February. Anyway, I gzipped them yesterday so they'll be OK now.
;-)