IOError:[Errno 27] File too large

[Dave Angel]

On 03/14/2013 04:12 PM, ch.valderanis at gmail.com wrote:
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>> Taking a wild guess, I think that you are using a Samba share on a Linux
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>> server. A file "FILENAME.xml;" was accidentally creating on this share
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>> from the Linux filesystem layer, since Linux will allow you to use
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>> semicolons in file names. But samba enforces the same restrictions as
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>> Windows, so when you access the file system through sambda, it gives an
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>> error when you try to create a new file "FILENAME.sub;".
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>> This is a wild guess, and could be completely wrong. Please come back and
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>> tell us the solution when you have solved it.
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> So, let me report the solution.
> All the files were in an afs filesystem. afs has a limit for the total length of  the filenames per directory. for more details take a look at http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/AFS/topten.html#Tip13
> In my case 10k files with ~160characters per filename were just hitting the limit. The error message is basically misleading.
>
> Makis
>

Aha!  So the file that was too large was the directory file.

-- 
DaveA