From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 20 14:25:23 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4107A1065679 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:25:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AF58FC1E for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:25:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K9hYA-0007HQ-QX for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:25:16 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:25:14 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:25:14 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:25:05 +0200 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <485BA3D2.3090108@bulinfo.net> <20080620132833.GB83165@rink.nu> <20080620140623.GC83165@rink.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig0F546CC3CB7B26CE25A2C825" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) In-Reply-To: <20080620140623.GC83165@rink.nu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: Incorrect file size? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:25:23 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig0F546CC3CB7B26CE25A2C825 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rink Springer wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 03:54:22PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: >> Except that the file in question should be, judging by the filename, a= >> simple text file. I don't really see how a whitelist could grow to suc= h >> monstrous sizes :) Most likely it's a file system corruption - fsck >> should be the first thing to try. >=20 > The 'vscan' user leads me assume this is SpamAssassin - I've seen this > behaviour at work, where our scripts were trying to backup a 1TB file > (which actually was ~vscan/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist). The result wa= s > that the backup script died due to lack of disk space on the backup > server (as we don't use compression). >=20 > When I was investigating why the file could be so large it, it turned > out the file was only a few hunderd 'real' MB's, so that is why I assum= e > this person is having the same issue as we do. The file is a Berkeley D= B > file, by the way, so there's nothing textfile about it ;-) I learn something every day :) Didn't know BDB was smart enough to create sparse files. --------------enig0F546CC3CB7B26CE25A2C825 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIW73BldnAQVacBcgRAueCAKDvHyIIKXlCeubk7H4DdyhA76j9SACeLGUc BdGXkCi8uujS2fHqsRUtajg= =y1PG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig0F546CC3CB7B26CE25A2C825--