Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3506 mails)

["Marlier, Ian" <ian.marlier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Sell [mailto:maillists@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:39 AM
> To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: [SLE] File limits
> 
> Is there a way to check what limitations a suse 10 server has on
files?
> I admin a server for about 85 mail users and have spamassassin
> configured to write all caught spam to a file and not deliver. The
other
> day all the spams were being tagged and delivered. I looked at the
file
> and it was pretty large so I moved it and gzipped it. Spams started
> being delivered to the empty file again. The file was  (~2.1gigs) in
> size. I don't believe I have quotas of any sort enabled. I'm just
> wondering where to start looking into why this happened.
> 
> Rob

Any number of filesystems have a 2GB limit on filesize (and it can cause
big big issues at times!).  A default install of (for example) SuSE 9.1
-- just a couple of years back -- used a version of ext2/3 as its
default FS, and that was susceptible to this condition.

I'm assuming that reiser isn't vulnerable, and that the newer ext2/ext3
versions in later releases aren't, but haven't tried to find out :-)