From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 13:57:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06277 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 13:57:50 -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 NAA06265 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 13:57:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01506; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 15:57:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199804112057.PAA01506@dyson.iquest.net> 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: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 15:57:31 -0500 (EST) Cc: tom@uniserve.com, 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 Niall Smart said: > 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 > do I believe the standard encompasses NFS. > FreeBSD has supported an API that allows 64Bits, and our FFS filesystem works with files up to at least 30GBytes or more (demonstrated.) -- 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