From: Xavier <NOSPAM@...>
Date: 2004-03-25T20:59:27+09:00
Subject: Re: File.stat.size errors with file sizes over 2Gigs.

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 07:38:34 +0900, walter wrote:

> <snip>
>> I'm not sure about windows, but on unix[1] the file size usually is 
> an
>> off_t, which is a signed value[2], and traditionally was 32bit (i.e.
>> +/- 2Gig).
>> 
>> Following, some unices (namely solaris comes to mind) offered 'large
>> file versions' of many of their calls, others (e.g. BSDs) just
>> switched to a signed 64 bit value for off_t. I think the latter is
>> called for in the windows compat layer (as I assume there is one,
>> implementing stat) to really solve your problem.
>> 
>> [1] -- in stat(2)'s struct stat that is
>> [2] -- to seek(2) backwards

It's not a ruby issue. You need to compile it (and your system as
well) with large file support.
In my case, I just did # emerge ruby (I Love My Gentoo) e.g.

 File.stat("/distribs/debian/sid/dvd/debian-20040129-i386-binary-1.iso")
=> #<File::Stat dev=0x303, ino=5177355, mode=0100644, nlink=1, uid=500,
gid=100, rdev=0x0, size=4674289664, blksize=4096, blocks=9138416,
atime=Sat Jan 31 20:52:50 CET 2004, mtime=Sat Jan 31 22:33:24 CET 2004,
ctime=Sat Jan 31 22:33:24 CET 2004>

Hth,
Xavier