[lxc-users] lxc exec - cp: Value too large for defined data type

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

On 2016-10-05 00:05, Michael Peek wrote:
> I could be completely wrong about everything, but here's what I think 
> is
> going on:
> 
> If I'm correct then the version of cp you have inside the container was
> compiled without large file support enabled.  What constitutes a 
> "large"
> file is dependent on whether you're using a 32-bit or 64-bit system.  
> If
> your container is running a 32-bit image, then a large file is any file
> whose size is 2GB or larger in size.  For containers running a 64-bit
> image a large file any file of size 4GB or larger.  To support large
> files programs usually only need to be compiled with certain compiler
> flags enabled to tell the compiler to activate "large file"-specific
> code within the source, either that or the libraries that the program
> depends upon need to support large files by default.

The container is Ubuntu 14.04; host is Ubuntu 16.04.

"cp" is copying config files.

They are a few hundred bytes in size, few kilobytes maximum.


So must be something else.


Tomasz Chmielewski
https://lxadm.com