Max file size?

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Greetings,
This morning we came across a peculiar error in vyos. When trying to add a network to a network-group, we got the cryptic error message ‘set failed’ with no explanation. Checking /var/log/vyatta/cfg-stdout.log revealed the following:

# tail /var/log/vyatta/cfg-stdout.log
set cfg path failed

write_file too large
failed to write node value (write) [/opt/vyatta/config/tmp/new_config_19469/firewall/group/network-group/BLACKHOLE-NET-GRP/network/node.val]
set cfg path failed

write_file too large
failed to write node value (write) [/opt/vyatta/config/tmp/new_config_19638/firewall/group/network-group/BLACKHOLE-NET-GRP/network/node.val]
set cfg path failed

Searching the source on github took me to UnionfsCstore::write_file in vyatta-cfg/src/cstore/unionfs/cstore-unionfs.cpp which logs that message if the node.val being written is > C_UNIONFS_MAX_FILE_SIZE which is defined in vyatta-cfg/src/cstore/unionfs/cstore-unionfs.hpp to be 256k.

Checking the file /opt/vyatta/config/tmp/new_config_19638/firewall/group/network-group/BLACKHOLE-NET-GRP/network/node.val it is indeed a hair over 256K:

# ls -l /opt/vyatta/config/tmp/new_config_19638/firewall/group/network-group/BLACKHOLE-NET-GRP/network/node.val
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 261802 Jun 22 11:44 /opt/vyatta/config/tmp/new_config_19638/firewall/group/network-group/BLACKHOLE-NET-GRP/network/node.val

Is there a reason for this file size limitation? Any way for me to change it at runtime? This is a rather large network group, its used by our IDS software to automatically block people that try to do $badthings to our network.