[OpenAFS] File size limit exceeded .. solutions ?!

Nick Burrett nick@dsvr.net
Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:41:24 +0000


Holger Brueckner wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:00, Bernhard Gueth wrote:
> 
>>I read about a file size limit of 2GB in AFS. Since I need big files to 
>>stay on the AFS, I tried to make:
>>dd if=/dev/zero of=/afs/test/test.null size=1M count=3000
>>and i got
>>"File size limit exceeded".
> 
> 
> same problem here:
> 
> bash-2.05a$ dd if=/dev/zero of=zero bs=1M count=3096
> 3096+0 records in
> 3096+0 records out
> 3246391296 bytes transferred in 91.868764 seconds (35337270 bytes/sec)
> 
> bash-2.05a$ cp zero /afs/net-labs.local/private/darks/
> File size limit exceeded
> systems are running:
> 
> openafs-1.2.11

You need to use the latest CVS release of OpenAFS i.e. 1.3.x.  Large 
file support is not available in the 1.2 series.



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Nick Burrett
Network Engineer, Designer Servers Ltd.   http://www.dsvr.co.uk