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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

google me: sendfile problems

After upgrading an ubuntu LTS server at work proftpd (not my choice) would not transfer files anymore. It would die with:

error using sendfile(): [75] Value too large for defined data type

After searching a little I found the problem: sendfile does not work if the filesystem on which the files are stored is 'special'. Of course we are serving files from a CIFS directory... Sigh.