We administer our filers from a Solaris 8 machine: this is where the home directories (on the NetApp) for new users are created, and from where they are removed for old users.
Occasionally removal of the home directory and its contents partially fails: Value too large for defined data type
An "ls -lR" on the residual directory gives similar "Value too large ..." message for the residual files that the "rm ..." has been unable to remove.
I cannot find a definitive statement about this, but I recall (and strongly suspect) something to do with a timestamp (ctime, mtime, atime etc.) having some sort of integer sign-bit wrap-around issue (and that if _were_ able to display it, the result would typically have a year in the big-band 1940s era...) And that NFS (from our Solaris 8 admin machine) has trouble with such things.
Is this likely to be the problem? If so, are there any recommended solutions (or paths to investigate)? Thanks.