From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 12: 2:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3698414D3A for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 12:02:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA06021; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:56:09 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:56:09 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Mitch Collinsworth , Gene Harris , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, mkc@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu Subject: Re: are files limited to 2 GB still? Message-ID: <19991026135609.A5910@dan.emsphone.com> References: <199910261805.AA129231103@broccoli.graphics.cornell.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from bright@wintelcom.net on Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:37:39AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Oct 26), Alfred Perlstein said: > On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Mitch Collinsworth wrote: > > You're right. I can get it onto the FBSD filesystem using ftp > > (pant, pant, pant is right!) and now I can access it with all the > > usual file utilities. Must be a 2 GB file size limitation still in > > NFS. Anybody know what's up with that? > > > > Ok, back to fighting with gnutar. (What makes it segfault?) > > Yes there is a 2gig NFS limit currently. NFSv2 does have a 2 gig filesize limit, but FreeBSD can do NFSv3 mounts which handle large files. Make sure that your HP-UX box can do NFSv3, and make sure that you are doing an NFSv3 mount from FreeBSD ('amd' defaults to v2 I think). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message