From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 26 18:17:00 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A19316A41F for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:17:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (sigma.octantis.com.au [207.44.188.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2FF43D1D for ; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:16:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 16686 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2005 04:16:59 +1000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (202.59.110.3) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 27 Jun 2005 04:16:59 +1000 Message-ID: <42BEF112.4070103@meijome.net> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 04:16:50 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson References: <42BE3798.1020200@meijome.net> <20050626052603.GB9894@dan.emsphone.com> <42BE442C.9090502@meijome.net> <42BE4F33.6040101@meijome.net> <20050626070220.GA51206@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050626070220.GA51206@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzip from ports vs gzip from system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 18:17:00 -0000 Dan Nelson wrote: > That looks like whatever filesystem gzip was writing to couldn't handle > files over 2gb. You mentioned writing to a remote filesystem using > amd, but it defaults to NFSv3. Were you maybe writing to a FAT fs on > the remote end? You can also see whether amd actually mounted the > remote fs with NFSv2 by uncommenting the "/var/log/all.log" line in > /etc/syslog.con, touching /var/log/all.log, and restarting syslog. > Then have amd remount the remote system and check the log. > Thanks for the tip Dan. it was mounting as v2. Mounting by hand as v3 addressed the problem, though why it was dying @ 4 GB ( - 16K) instead of 2 GB baffles me. The other variable here is amd, which I wanst using for the full, correct run ( 6 GB .gz file). will see how it goes. thanks for your help, Beto