From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: File size limitation in NFS Date: 16 Apr 2003 16:55:51 -0700 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: References: <1048092610.9649.11.camel@archiveLinux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: Received: from neon-gw-l3.transmeta.com ([63.209.4.196]:55306 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261885AbTDPXoJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Apr 2003 19:44:09 -0400 Received: (from root@localhost) by neon-gw.transmeta.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA17647 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:55:58 -0700 Received: from palladium.transmeta.com (palladium.transmeta.com [10.0.0.117]) by deepthought.transmeta.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h3GNtra16381 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:55:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by palladium.transmeta.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA04079 for linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org; Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:55:52 -0700 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Followup to: <1048092610.9649.11.camel@archiveLinux> By author: Jim Deas 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 -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." Architectures needed: ia64 m68k mips64 ppc ppc64 s390 s390x sh v850 x86-64