We just ran across a strange happening on our F760 filer. One of our folks did a "du -s" on an RCS directory to see how much space it was using:
=> du -s RCS du: RCS/ParseNVP.pm,v: Value too large for defined data type
And got a strange error. In fact, pretty much anything that would do a stat(2) call on this file in this directory would generate the same error message. There were no errors logged on the filer and all weekly messages seem to indicate that all is well, but it still puzzles me.
I ran off for the requisite caffine boost and came back and am now unable to reproduce the problem. I asked the user if they perhaps did something such as recreating the RCS directory from another source... they hadn't.
The file which was complained about is a mere 3422 bytes, and all timestamps indicate that the file has not changed recently.
Has anybody else seen this problem or have any ideas on how/why this may have occurred?
For what it's worth, the NFS client accessing the files is running Solaris 5.7. I unfortunately didn't pop over to one of my BSD boxes before the problem worked itself out.
~mitch