From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: File size limitation in NFS
Date: 16 Apr 2003 16:55:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b7kqi7$8oi$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1048092610.9649.11.camel@archiveLinux
Followup to: <1048092610.9649.11.camel@archiveLinux>
By author: Jim Deas <jdeas@jadsystems.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.fs.devel
>
> I am using a stock 2.4.18 kernel (Redhat 8.0)and using NFS to share
> media files. These file can be 2+gig in size. I have a problem with
> a 5.2G video file. Using fopen64(filename,"rb"): I can open the
> file on the local drive but over the NFS share the fopen64 fails.
> Smaller files do work both nfs and local. The ls command reports
> the proper files sizes from the nfs share (even the 5.2G file).
> Where should I start looking? Can I assume the problem is in nfsd
> and nfs or is this a deeper problem in the vfs.
>
Check to make sure you're using NFSv3 and that both the client and
server support large files.
-hpa
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2003-03-19 16:50 File size limitation in NFS Jim Deas
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