From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 03:41:50 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 BF27516A41C for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:41:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sah.list@gmail.com) Received: from fed1rmmtao10.cox.net (fed1rmmtao10.cox.net [68.230.241.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8203B43D1F for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:41:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sah.list@gmail.com) Received: from [192.168.22.205] (really [68.7.184.103]) by fed1rmmtao10.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050627034148.CEYU1860.fed1rmmtao10.cox.net@[192.168.22.205]>; Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:41:48 -0400 In-Reply-To: <42BE9359.8000401@meijome.net> References: <42BE3798.1020200@meijome.net> <20050626052603.GB9894@dan.emsphone.com> <42BE442C.9090502@meijome.net> <42BE4F33.6040101@meijome.net> <20050626070220.GA51206@dan.emsphone.com> <42BE9359.8000401@meijome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <9C6EADF8-A6F3-464D-AC32-1E0FA87A662B@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Sean Hafeez Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:40:42 -0700 To: Norberto Meijome X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4 GB file limit? (WAS 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: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 03:41:50 -0000 windows limit. 4gb file size limit. On Jun 26, 2005, at 4:36 AM, Norberto Meijome wrote: > to recap: > dump | gzip > nfs_share_on_w2k_NAS_running_ServicesForUnix > > This works fine until the size of the file created on the nfs_share > is just under 4 GB (originally thought 2 GB problem) > > Client : FBSD 4.11, cvsuped April 15th 05, world + kernel. > Server : Win2K-Storage server, SP4, Microsoft Windows Services for > UNIX 3.5 [8.0.1969.1] > > more below > > Dan Nelson wrote: > > >>> Norberto Meijome wrote: >>> >>> DUMP: 66.60% done, finished in 1:32 >>> >>> gzip: stdout: File too large >>> DUMP: Broken pipe >>> DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted. >>> >>> >> 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. >> >> > Hmm. ok, as suspected gzip v1.3.5 from ports fails as the other > one. And the filesize it died on is 4,294,950,912 bytes . Just > under 4 GB - 16K less than 4 GB. (back to system gzip of course :) ) > > The native FS on the NAS is NTFS, which doesnt have this kind of > limitation , as per the following article from MS(may wrap) > > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/ > reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/ > all/reskit/en-us/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp > > I just checked from the server itself with dd from SFU, can create > a 5 GB file with no probs. > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/fs/E/temp/test1 bs=4096 count=1310720 > > So i've stopped amd, bounced box clean, mounted the share via NFS3 > > mount_nfs -3 edsac:/diablo_backs/ /mnt/test1/ > > still running this next pass... > any ideas what is breaking...and why? > > thanks!! > Beto > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >