Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-13 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2007-03-12 at 21:04 -0700, Mike Noble wrote: I'm surprised to be hit by the small file limit on NFS. Is there some specific parameter I need to support large files? The same command, run locally on the server, runs fine (4GB ok),

Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-13 Thread Teruel de Campo MD
Guys, The file size depends on the file system where it resides not of the CPU. Of course up to a degree. I remember from my os/2 days creating tar files of the whole system, I could do it in a JFS formatted partition but not in a fat because of size limitations. -=terry(Denver)=- On Mon,

Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-13 Thread Geir A. Myrestrand
Mike Noble wrote: On Sunday 11 March 2007 18:36, Linda Walsh wrote: I was just surprised by hitting a 4GB file limit on NFS -- am running Suse 10.2 on client (currently running SuSE2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp), and SuSE 9.3 (with vanilla 2.6.20) on server. The target file system (xfs) supports large

Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-12 Thread Mike Noble
On Sunday 11 March 2007 18:36, Linda Walsh wrote: I was just surprised by hitting a 4GB file limit on NFS -- am running Suse 10.2 on client (currently running SuSE2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp), and SuSE 9.3 (with vanilla 2.6.20) on server. The target file system (xfs) supports large files. I was

Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-12 Thread Alexey Eremenko
4 GB is the limit of a 32bit processor. Basically, NFS on x86 arch has this limit ? How about NFS on x86-64 arch ? Most software for x86 has no this limitation - look at ext3. -Alexey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 12 March 2007 21:04, Mike Noble wrote: ... 4 GB is the limit of a 32bit processor. Not really. 4 x 2^32 is the limit of a 32-bit word (unsigned). Every x86 processor produced in the past ... 10? 15? 20? years can perform 64-bit arithmetic. Mike RRS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-12 Thread Randall R Schulz
On Monday 12 March 2007 22:18, Randall R Schulz wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 21:04, Mike Noble wrote: ... 4 GB is the limit of a 32bit processor. Not really. 4 x 2^32 is the limit of a 32-bit word (unsigned). Duh... 2^32 is the limit of an unsigned 32-bit word, of course. 2^30 is a

[opensuse] Max filesize on NFS? 4G?

2007-03-11 Thread Linda Walsh
I was just surprised by hitting a 4GB file limit on NFS -- am running Suse 10.2 on client (currently running SuSE2.6.18.2-34-bigsmp), and SuSE 9.3 (with vanilla 2.6.20) on server. The target file system (xfs) supports large files. I was running an xfsdump |bzip2remotefile I'm surprised to be