"result too large" error when accessing files
Hi,
I'm attempting to make a backup copy of one of my folders (using tar from shell). For several files, I got "Read error at byte 0, reading 1224 bytes: Result too large" error message. It seems those files are unreadable. Whatever application attempts to access them results with the same error.
The files reside on the volume that I created a day ago. It's a non-journaled HFS+ volume on external hard drive. They are part of an Aperture Vault that I wanted to make an archive copy and store offsite. Aperture was closed (not running) when I was creating the archive.
This means two things. The onsite backup of my photos is broken, obviously (some of the files are unreadable). My offsite backup is broken, since it doesn't contain those files.
I've searched the net, and found couple of threads on some mailing lists describing same problem. But no answer. Couple of folks on those mailing lists suggested it migh point to full disk. However, in my case, there is some 450GB of free space on the volume I was getting read errors on (the destination volume had about 200GB free, and system drive had about 50GB free, so there was plenty of space all around the system too).
File system corruption?
Mac OS X (10.4.9)
I'm attempting to make a backup copy of one of my folders (using tar from shell). For several files, I got "Read error at byte 0, reading 1224 bytes: Result too large" error message. It seems those files are unreadable. Whatever application attempts to access them results with the same error.
The files reside on the volume that I created a day ago. It's a non-journaled HFS+ volume on external hard drive. They are part of an Aperture Vault that I wanted to make an archive copy and store offsite. Aperture was closed (not running) when I was creating the archive.
This means two things. The onsite backup of my photos is broken, obviously (some of the files are unreadable). My offsite backup is broken, since it doesn't contain those files.
I've searched the net, and found couple of threads on some mailing lists describing same problem. But no answer. Couple of folks on those mailing lists suggested it migh point to full disk. However, in my case, there is some 450GB of free space on the volume I was getting read errors on (the destination volume had about 200GB free, and system drive had about 50GB free, so there was plenty of space all around the system too).
File system corruption?
Mac OS X (10.4.9)
