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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:56:09 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc: Mitch Collinsworth <mkc@Graphics.Cornell.EDU>,
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Subject: Re: are files limited to 2 GB still?
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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).
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Dan Nelson
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