Re: rdiff-backup-fs filesize for large files

[Arrigo Marchiori]

Hello Eric, Griffin,

replying below.

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 07:33:21AM +1100, griffin tucker wrote:

> yep, thanks eric.
> 
> also worth noting there's a $30 bounty on bountysource for whomever
> solves this particular bug
> 
> https://www.bountysource.com/issues/96838952-files-with-a-byte-size-larger-than-an-int-cause-i-o-errors
> 
> On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 03:11, EricZolf <ewl+rdiffbackup@lavar.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Arrigo,
> >
> > It's about https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-fs/issues/2

Aha, thank you. I did not read the email subject carefully enough.

> > But to be clear, it's possibly the whole FS code which needs a cleanup,

Yes, it does! ;-)

> > I only "saved" it under the umbrella of rdiff-backup, no clue in which 
> > state it exactly is.
> >
> > You're more than welcome to have a look!

Thank you.. I did and I am proposing a very very simple fix:
https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup-fs/pull/3
...in the hope it is such a low-hanging fruit!

Unfortunately I have no idea about how to test this. Maybe Griffin?

Regards,
-- 
Arrigo

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