From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 12 06:51:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08984 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 06:51:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08979 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 06:51:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) Received: from salomon.mchp.siemens.de (salomon.siemens.de [139.23.33.13]) by david.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA21965 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:50:44 +0200 (MDT) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (daemon@curry.mchp.siemens.de [146.180.31.23]) by salomon.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA06540 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:50:44 +0200 (MDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05839 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:50:45 +0200 (CEST) From: Andre Albsmeier Message-Id: <199804121350.PAA19332@intern> Subject: Re: maximum file size with NFS? In-Reply-To: <199804111940.UAA06687@indigo.ie> from Niall Smart at "Apr 11, 98 08:40:28 pm" To: rotel@indigo.ie Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:50:33 +0200 (CEST) Cc: tom@uniserve.com, freebsd-questions@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 > On Apr 11, 12:23pm, Tom wrote: > } Subject: maximum file size with NFS? > > > > 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. > > 2GB is a typical maximum file size under UNIX, the UNIX community > have already published a standard API which handles 64bit file > sizes but AFAIK I don't believe FreeBSD supports it, yet (?) nor I regularly do backups via tar which creates files up to 18GB here on a 2.2.6 system. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message