svnadmin: Can't write to stream: File too large

[Torsten Krah <tk...@fachschaft.imn.htwk-leipzig.de>]

Hi,

ive got a large repository (using svn version 1.5.1 r32289) and want to dump 
the repository.
Dumping with svnadmin dump $repo > dumpfile does result in:

svnadmin: Can't write to stream: File too large

The file at this time is around 17 GiB in size.
The only workaround found at the moment is to bzip or gzip things via a pipe.

But why i got this error and what is the solution - thought svn should support 
such big dump files, shouldn't it?

thx

Torsten

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Re: svnadmin: Can't write to stream: File too large

[Torsten Krah <tk...@fachschaft.imn.htwk-leipzig.de>]

Am Montag, 3. Januar 2011 schrieb B Smith-Mannschott:
> What *nix flavor are you running? What's the file system you're trying
> to write the dump file to? "Around 17 GiB" seems like a strange
> maximum size. It isn't 17179869184 bytes, perchance?

Found the culprit.
My ext3 block size is 1024 - so the maximum size is 16 GiB.
Should dump to another fs which does allow me to have 2TiB file size with 4096 
blocksize.

thx for the hint :-)

Torsten

Re: svnadmin: Can't write to stream: File too large

[B Smith-Mannschott <bs...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 14:16, Torsten Krah
<tk...@fachschaft.imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ive got a large repository (using svn version 1.5.1 r32289) and want to dump
> the repository.
> Dumping with svnadmin dump $repo > dumpfile does result in:
>
> svnadmin: Can't write to stream: File too large
>
> The file at this time is around 17 GiB in size.
> The only workaround found at the moment is to bzip or gzip things via a pipe.
>
> But why i got this error and what is the solution - thought svn should support
> such big dump files, shouldn't it?

I don't think the error condition is originating in Subversion.
Subversion just sees that it's writing to standard output, which your
shell has arranged to write into a file.  It seems more likely that
you are running into a limitation of the underlying file system.

What *nix flavor are you running? What's the file system you're trying
to write the dump file to? "Around 17 GiB" seems like a strange
maximum size. It isn't 17179869184 bytes, perchance?

// Ben

> thx
>
> Torsten
>
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> completely unintentional side effect."
>        -- Linus Torvalds
>