Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:51:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi terabyte disk arrays Message-ID: <20031023054855.C20891-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <20031022152004.I71676@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Mark Nipper wrote: > > > I'm not sure if this is an NFS restriction or an actual > > userland utility restriction, but I have a 4-STABLE machine NFS > > mounting a 5.1-RELEASE machine that is exporting an approximately > > 1.6T disk array, and df on my 4-STABLE machine gives: > > --- > > host:/home2 -508991530 159283464 -668274994 -31% /home2 > > Based on a recent discussion, this is a limitation of statfs, which uses > 32 bit counters. kirk wants to make a new 64-bit statfs to fix this > problem. Stay tuned. > > Your filesystem is fine, just the numbers will be a little wonky. :) Irix has an option flag for exports called '32bitclients' to go along with its 64bit clean systems, to avoid problems like this when exporting to 32bit machines. It may be a good idea to do something similar if/when Dr. M. gets around to doing this. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>help
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