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Re: IOError:[Errno 27] File too large

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> Taking a wild guess, I think that you are using a Samba share on a Linux 
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> server. A file "FILENAME.xml;" was accidentally creating on this share 
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> from the Linux filesystem layer, since Linux will allow you to use 
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> semicolons in file names. But samba enforces the same restrictions as 
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> Windows, so when you access the file system through sambda, it gives an 
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> error when you try to create a new file "FILENAME.sub;".
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> This is a wild guess, and could be completely wrong. Please come back and 
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> tell us the solution when you have solved it.

So, let me report the solution.
All the files were in an afs filesystem. afs has a limit for the total length of  the filenames per directory. for more details take a look at http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/AFS/topten.html#Tip13
In my case 10k files with ~160characters per filename were just hitting the limit. The error message is basically misleading.

Makis

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IOError:[Errno 27] File too large ch.valderanis@gmail.com - 2013-03-13 09:53 -0700
  Re: IOError:[Errno 27] File too large Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-13 17:32 +0000
    Re: IOError:[Errno 27] File too large ch.valderanis@gmail.com - 2013-03-13 15:35 -0700
      Re: IOError:[Errno 27] File too large Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-03-14 02:46 +0000
        Re: IOError:[Errno 27] File too large ch.valderanis@gmail.com - 2013-03-14 13:12 -0700
          Re: IOError:[Errno 27] File too large Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-03-14 21:32 -0400
  Re: IOError:[Errno 27] File too large Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-03-13 18:27 -0400

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