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

[Adam Funk]

On 2011-03-11, Hannes von Haugwitz wrote:

> 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].

Thanks for the information.

I'm surprised the error first turned up 2 days ago, since I upgraded
to 0.14.2 on 26 January and one of the big files has been there since
9 February.  Anyway, I gzipped them yesterday so they'll be OK now.
;-)