Write error in file $FILE. File too large.

[fooness]

Hello folks.

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I don't think it's normal behavior. And I didn't find ANYTHING on google and also asked about three times in IRC, but nobody knew any answer or solution.

So, I just set up a freeNAS box, newest stable version.

I've added one 4TB harddrive (ZFS) for data and one 1TB harddrive (ZFS) for jails and such.

I installed a debian jail for pyLoad. I added the 4TB storage via 'Add storage' to /mnt/incoming ...

When trying to unrar a movie or whatever >4GB, I get the message "Write error in $FILE. File too large.".

This happens on the 1TB harddrive and also on the 4TB harddrive, so it's not harddrive-dependent.

Any ideas on this?

I'll be away for about two weeks, so I can't test anything. But I'll always read in here and maybe I can answer your questions, if any, out of my mind.

Thanks for any help!

 

[dlavigne]

Is this the 32 or 64 bit version of FreeNAS?

 

[cyberjock]

Are you doing this from the jail? The linux jails are going through some pains right now because many apps are querying your pool for available disk space, coming up with bizarre numbers like "0 bytes free" and then crashing because it thinks you actually have no disk space. Depending on the program some use different methods to determine what the free space on your pool actually is. None of them seem to be getting an accurate number, but as long as its so big it doesn't interfere with the application who cares...

That's my first stab at the problem.

If you could post system specs, FreeNAS version(and 32 or 64bit) that would be very useful.

 

[fooness]

Hello! Thanks so far.

I tried extracting the file in the jail, yes. I couls try mounting the share and unraring it from my MacBook, do you think that does the trick?

My FreeNAS-version is 9.2.0 and I'm 90% sure it's 64bit...

I would be very surprised, if the system thinks the disk is full... my downloadmanager downloads files, if I tell it to, these files ca also be written...

Just it seems I can't write files above 4GB. : x

 

[cyberjock]

I'd still like system specs... Pretty sure there's more to your system than a FreeNAS version...

 

[fooness]

Hello,

The mainboard is an Intel, I think DQ45.

My CPU is an Intel Core2Duo 2,8GHz (E7400).

Using 8GB of Mushkin RAM.

The powersupply is an be!quiet 450W.

Harddrives are 1TB Samsung RAID (the RAID is part of the name of these samsung drives, I don't use a hard- or software raid on these drives) and 4TB Western Digital Green.

 

[cyberjock]

Ug.. 8GB of RAM and non-ECC at that.

One thing you aren't understanding(or I didn't make clear) is that these programs are checking for disk space in different ways. One person complained that python code said there was no disk space, but apt-get didn't care and ran without issue. That was in the same jail! Each program does its own checks, and depending on how the check is being performed it either allows stuff to work or doesn't. Here's one example... https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/3668

It depends on the application and how it arrives at checking for free disk space. It could be your program is thinking there's only 4GB free(4GB is 2^32.. that's probably not a coincidence), so anytime you try to extract something bigger than 4GB you get the big middle finger.

I just don't have any other recommendations. Before 9.2.0 came out there was talk about how "good" this linux stuff would be. The people that have experience with this stuff in IRC were saying this would be a god-send for people that are heavy-linux and FreeBSD users.. but the rest of us are probably in serious trouble if we try to learn it in a month or two.

Guess where most people seem to fall? :(

 

[fooness]

Offtopic, but is there another way to run pyLoad and a mysql-server (for xbmc's library)?

 

[fooness]

Any news to this?

 

[cyberjock]

Nope. Still on your own to deal with the jails once created. Its not likely to change in the foreseeable future either. At least I haven't heard of any work on this problem as this is a problem with how the free space is calculated for certain applications.

 

[fooness]

So, maybe is there an alternative to unrar, which calculates the size in a different way?

 

[cyberjock]

Maybe. You're pretty much on your own to support your linux install how you see fit.

 

[fooness]

I also asked for a better solution, but I got no help/advice yet... : /

http://forums.freenas.org/threads/pyload-mysql.17627/

 

[cyberjock]

Not too surprised. This is the FreeNAS forums. We help provide support for FreeNAS. What goes on inside the jails really isn't our concern and is pretty much outside of what we support.

What you are asking for support on is like posting to the VMWare forums asking for help with linux because it's running in their VM. They don't really support the actual guest OS. They provide the virtualization software and you are on your own to use it as you see fit.

 

[fooness]

Oh ok I see.

Though I thought the forum would also be there for help with plugins/jails. Hm, sorry if I was wrong...