Volume too large for defined data type

Cause

This error occurred when trying to open a database file that was greater than 2 Gbytes in size. You should be able to do this, because the Solaris 2.6 release supports file sizes greater than 2 Gbytes.

Action

It is true that the Solaris 2.6 software supports file sizes greater than 2 Gbytes, but to open a file of that size, you must use a new version of the standard calls. There are 64-bit versions of most system calls and libc functions. For example: open64 instead of open.

See Also

Refer to the lf64(5) man page.