From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 23 05:52:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2721516A4B3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:52:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [66.111.41.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8056543F3F for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:51:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0C2468E5; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AD5A8E0; Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:51:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 05:51:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Doug White In-Reply-To: <20031022152004.I71676@carver.gumbysoft.com> Message-ID: <20031023054855.C20891-100000@moo.sysabend.org> X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: multi terabyte disk arrays X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 12:52:00 -0000 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