From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2007 - 10:11:37 CST

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Ralph Seichter:
> Wietse Venema wrote:
>
> > Reiserfs has a history of mis-reporting errors.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have the option to use a different filesystem on
> this particular machine.

That would not solve the underlying problem: a too large message.
It would change the error message from the incorrect "illegal seek"
to the correct "file too large".

> So it would seem that my only option is rising
> message_size_limit enough, unless I abstain from transferring the large
> file by mail altogether?

Consider that the file will keep growing, so you won't really solve
anything by raising the limit. At some point you have to start
changing mailbox size limits and whatnot.

Email is not good for huge files, because there will always be at
last two copies of the data (one copy in the queue, and one copy
outside the queue).

        Wietse

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