Re: df fails to read file system list? no sparse file support?

[Jim Meyering]

Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> On 01/31/2011 12:18 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>> What type of file system do we get for jobs like these?
>
> All machines use ext3 or ext4.  This test:
>
>>     http://hydra.nixos.org/build/875237/nixlog/1/raw
>
> was done on a machine with an ext3 filesystem.  However, it (rather
> unfortunately) has a 1 KiB cluster size, which means that the maximum file 
> size
> (even sparse files) is rather limited, about 16 GiB:
>
> address@hidden:~]# truncate -s16G x
>
> address@hidden:~]# truncate -s17G x
> truncate: failed to truncate `x' at 18253611008 bytes: File too large

Hi Eelco,

Thanks for the info and diagnosis.
With that, I should be able to reproduce and debug it locally.