From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 15 17:12:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA00703 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:12:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA00658; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 17:12:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dyson@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10248; Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:56:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dyson) Message-Id: <199804152356.SAA10248@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: maximum file size with NFS? In-Reply-To: from Tom at "Apr 13, 98 06:35:17 pm" To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom) Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:56:26 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Tom said: > > On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > > > Tom said: > > > > > > What is the maximum file size supported by NFS? It seems the limit is > > > 2GB as I can't work with files bigger than that with NFS. > > > > > I think that NFSv3 theoretically supports >2GB. > > Does not work under 2.2.6-stable at least. I used the "-3" option to > mount_nfs to NFSv3. > > ls displays the correct size (about 2.2GB), but any attempt to read the > file fails. > That is a bug. In order to make sure that it gets fixed, would you please send-pr it? -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message