Re: Is a 9406-525 64-bit or 32-bit?

On 14/02/2008, at 8:11 AM, ALopez@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Because it didn't work either. Anytime I try (either through Zend's
install, MySQL's install, or directly from the command line in QSH) the
following fails:
QOpenSys/usr/bin/tar -xf /tmp/mysql_i5os_install.tar. It will start, but
inevitably it aborts with: "tar: 0511-197
mysql-5.0.45-i5os-power-64bit/bin/mysqld-debug: Cannot write data
extracted with the tar command. Thre is not enough space in the file
system."

Since I have close to a terabyte of free DASD, I'm at a loss. So is Zend.
So is IBM. We're at V5R4M5 with all the latest PTF groups.

I thought this had been resolved in a previous append. Without examining the code of tar I cannot be sure but this smacks of a coding defect. My guess is that you have TOO MUCH free space. Why? Because tar is checking the available free-space but (probably) storing it in a too small value (e.g., short instead of int or int instead of long long) therefore overflow occurs and the resulting value indicates insufficient free-space even though that is not true.

You can prove this by creating dummy objects to consume lots of free space. Something like:
CRTPF DUMMY/DUMMY00001 RCDLEN(32767) SIZE(2147483647) ALLOCATE(*YES)

repeated until sufficient space is consumed.

This sort of rubbish happened a lot in the early days of DOS and Unix as drive sizes increased. I thought we were past that by now.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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