Hi JD,
Thank you for the confirmation about the bug being
in Thunderbird.
Best regards,
Szaka
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, JD wrote:
> Thank you very much Szabolcs,
> I submitted a bug against tbird and they say
> they know about it. So, I told them
> "This is vary very strange on the part of TB
> developers since LFS support has been in Linux
> for so many years."
> It turns out the problem is in the module(s)
> that compute the Inbox.msf file. In that file
> they write the Inbox offset to lseek to for
> each message. This offset is a signed integer.
> Duh... Since LSF was there, the var type should
> have been size_t
> At this point, I think they blew it!
> So, what I did i carved out enough messages
> from the bottom of the Inbox (using vi)
> and saved them into a tmp file, write out
> the slightly smaller Inbox, renamed Inbox
> to Inbox.0, and renamed the tmp file Inbox.
> When the Inbox.msf got re-computed, all looks
> well now.
>
> Thank you for responding.
>
> Best regards,
>
> JD
>
> Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, JD wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Ok, will try as you suggest. However, it is interesting the
> > > the 32 bindows XP I am using is not having any problems with
> > > the over-2GB-Inbox folder. Only my 64bit Linux (which is
> > > running the 32 bit Thunderbird) is having this problem.
> > >
> >
> > Historically Thunderbird and Firefox file handling (afaik they use the same
> > library) had many bugs. It looks like this is also a Large File Support
> > (LFS) bug in Thunderbird.
> >
> > If it weren't so then people would submit LFS bug reports with other
> > softwares too. Large file support is one of the main reasons people don't
> > use FAT anymore and migrate to NTFS-3G.
> >
> > Btw, your driver is old: http://ntfs-3g.org/releases.html Though, regarding
> > to your problem, it shouldn't matter.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Szaka
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Jean-Pierre ANDRE <
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I also notice your inbox has just gone over 2GB
> > > > (your ls showed 2203410606 bytes) and I guess you
> > > > are using a 32-bit Windows and a 64-bit Linux.
> > > >
> > > > I think this calls for a specific check... on
> > > > Thunderbird and on ntfs-3g. The Thunderbird one
> > > > is the easiest : copy part of you messages (just
> > > > below 2147483648 bytes) into your Draft folder and
> > > > check you can read it, then copy more messages and
> > > > see what happens.
> > > >
> > > > I will do a few tests on the ntfs-3g behaviour over
> > > > the week-end.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
> > > > Jean-Pierre
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Message du 10/04/08 07:16
> > > > > De : "JD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > > A : [email protected]
> > > > > Copie ŕ :
> > > > > Objet : Re: [ntfs-3g-devel] ntfs-3g-1.1120-1.fc7
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi Jean-Pierre,
> > > > > I tried your suggestion by creating links only
> > > > > to the folders, but not to the msf files. Those
> > > > > files are native Linux files.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > NTFS-3G: http://ntfs-3g.org
> >
> >
> >
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