[Aide] maximum size of files that aide can record?

[Hannes von Haugwitz]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:08:36AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> I got the following warnings at the top of yesterday's aide report:
> 
> do_md(): open() for /var/scratch/backups/win0-2011-03-08.bkf failed: Value too large for defined data type
> do_md(): open() for /var/scratch/backups/win0-2011-02-09.bkf failed: Value too large for defined data type
> 
> Both files were just over 2 GB, but the second one has been in that
> directory for about a month.  (They were uncompressed Windows backup
> files copied over the LAN; I'm running aide "0.14.2-1ubuntu2".)  Do
> the warnings actually mean the files are too big for aide to record?

This bug is caused by an error in the configure script and has been
fixed in git[0] and aide 0.16a1.

There is also an debian bug report about this issue[1]. I've uploaded a
fixed debian package to debian unstable this morning[2].

Greetings

Hannes

[0] http://aide.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=aide/aide;a=commit;h=92c7878 
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=615111
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/aide/news/20110311T101709Z.html