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| Date | 2013-03-14 21:32 -0400 |
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| From | Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> |
| Subject | Re: IOError:[Errno 27] File too large |
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On 03/14/2013 04:12 PM, ch.valderanis@gmail.com wrote: > >> Taking a wild guess, I think that you are using a Samba share on a Linux >> >> server. A file "FILENAME.xml;" was accidentally creating on this share >> >> from the Linux filesystem layer, since Linux will allow you to use >> >> semicolons in file names. But samba enforces the same restrictions as >> >> Windows, so when you access the file system through sambda, it gives an >> >> error when you try to create a new file "FILENAME.sub;". >> >> This is a wild guess, and could be completely wrong. Please come back and >> >> 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 > Aha! So the file that was too large was the directory file. -- DaveA
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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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