Ext3 users - Sep 2002 - Problem with file-deletion

Hi,

I have a problem with the deletion of a file on a 7.2 machine (IBM, SMP)
The file sits on a raid5 disk with an ext3 filesystem.

[somesystem@someuser]# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.9-34custom (root@somesystem) (gcc version 2.96 20000731
(Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-108.7.2)) #1 SMP Mon Sep 2 11:37:22 CEST 2002

[someuser@somesystem]# ls -il
total 1073747024
  32477 -rw-rw-r--    1 test   test   644212388 Aug 30 23:40 test.log

[someuser@somesystem]# file test.log
test.log: can't stat `test.log' (Value too large for defined data type).

When I do a rm -f test.log, the system crashes; messages fly over the
console, but no output on a ssh session.

I do need the diskspace occupied by this file - anyon a clue how to
continue/proceed ?

Many thanks

regards
paul pot
sony music nl

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 02:24:17PM +0200, paul_pot@nl.sonymusic.com wrote:
 
> I have a problem with the deletion of a file on a 7.2 machine (IBM, SMP)
> The file sits on a raid5 disk with an ext3 filesystem.
 
> [somesystem@someuser]# cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.4.9-34custom (root@somesystem) (gcc version 2.96 20000731
> (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-108.7.2)) #1 SMP Mon Sep 2 11:37:22 CEST 2002
> 
> [someuser@somesystem]# ls -il
> total 1073747024
>   32477 -rw-rw-r--    1 test   test   644212388 Aug 30 23:40 test.log
Well, that large a file will always take a while to delete...
> [someuser@somesystem]# file test.log
> test.log: can't stat `test.log' (Value too large for defined data
type).
I wonder if "file" isn't large-file-aware...

(checks)

Yep, on a 7.2 system, "file" opens with the flags O_RDONLY; with 7.3,
it uses O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE.
> When I do a rm -f test.log, the system crashes; messages fly over the
> console, but no output on a ssh session.
We need the log messages to debug this.

Cheers,
 Stephen