-----Original Message----- From: Rob Sell [mailto:maillists@facnd.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 11:39 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com 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 :-)