From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 13:20:54 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 C6BDC16A41C for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:20:54 +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 75AE843D5D for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:20:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 10718 invoked from network); 27 Jun 2005 23:20:53 +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 23:20:53 +1000 Message-ID: <42BFFD2E.9090803@meijome.net> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:20:46 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean Hafeez 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> <9C6EADF8-A6F3-464D-AC32-1E0FA87A662B@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9C6EADF8-A6F3-464D-AC32-1E0FA87A662B@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 13:20:54 -0000 Sean Hafeez wrote: > windows limit. 4gb file size limit. > Hi Sean, I wish it was as simple as blaming MS for this one, but no - i tested this locally on the w2k box (dd cmd making 5 GB file), and then by actually running the dump | gzip > nfs_share (7 GB .gz) but using nfs v3, mounted by hand instead of via amd. I still dont know whether the problem was v2, which supposedly has a 2 GB limit, or amd, but mounting the share via /etc/fstab with options -3,-d,rw worked just fine. cheers, Beto