Re: NFS problem in 2.4.21 (RHEL ES 3 upd 2)

[Chuck Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:02:27PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote:
> må den 07.03.2005 Klokka 10:37 (-0600) skreiv Chuck Campbell:
> > I've just built a cluster of dual Opteron boxes, running RHEL 3 update 2
> > x86_64 OS.
> > 
> > I have problems creating files larger than 2GB on an NFS mounted filesystem.
> > 
> 
> Are you perhaps using NFSv2? If so, I suggest you try NFSv3, as the
> NFSv2 protocol does not support 64-bit file sizes.

OK, that fixed it.  It certainly wasn't apparent from the docs I plowed 
through for the last two days, and I never turned up that gem on Google
either.

Even the NFS-howto didn't point this out, so I'll submit some update info 
to them.  Sorry for the noise.

-chuck

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