Re: [NFS] NFS limits?

[Jordi Prats <jprats-KO9VOOLprG0@public.gmane.org>]

Hi all,
Witch are the limits of NFSv3 and NFSv4?

I was wrong about the version I was using, we are currently using NFSv3=
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Anyone is exporting by NFS a filesystem as large (or larger) as our?

Thanks,
Jordi

Jordi Prats wrote:
> Hi Peter,
> My boss is reluctant to upgrade this server, so I'm stuck to NFSv2 :(=
 I=20
> hope this will convince him !
>
> Thanks,
> Jordi
>
> Peter Staubach wrote:
>  =20
>> Jordi Prats wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>> I've a 4246 GB (above 4TB) using NFSv2 to export it. Some applicati=
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>>> are generating estrange errors, so it's possible I'm facing a NFS=20
>>> limit? How large can a be to be exported without problems?
>>>
>>> I'm using a 32bits architecture.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Jordi
>>>
>>>  =20
>>>      =20
>> NFSv2 is a 32 bit file access protocol, so don't be surprised
>> if you see EFBIG sorts of errors on operations such as FSSTAT.
>>
>> In particular, that file system size is too large to represent,
>> I am sort of surprised that it would even be mountable.
>>
>> Why not use NFSv3 or NFSv4?
>>
>>       ps
>>
>>
>>    =20
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>
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