[OpenAFS] 8gb limit?

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Thu, 18 Aug 2005 15:14:37 -0500


Definately no 8GB volume limit to my knowledge, though there may be
server-platform specific limits.

We have volumes 20 GB+ in some cases, though I work to split those up,
as they are a royal pain to move around and back up.

-- Nathan

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> From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org=20
> [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Todd T. Fries
> Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 4:33 PM
> To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS] 8gb limit?
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> I believe I've run into an 8gb volume limit on OpenBSD/i386 3.8-beta.
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> I'm running cvs head, and found that 'file too large' errors=20
> were being
> given when trying to write files to my root.cell volume.. I removed a
> 300mb file and was able to write several smaller files.  Then=20
> I noticed
> this and someone on #openafs on freenode suggested there was=20
> a historic
> 8gb volume limit that should be gone by now.
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> $ df -ih /vicepa
> Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused   ifree  %iused
> Mounted on
> /dev/wd2g     21.7G    7.8G   12.8G    38%   26575 2879151   =20
>  1%   /vicepa
> $
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> At the moment, I'm only `testing' OpenAFS on OpenBSD so I=20
> have all this
> in the root.cell volume, will refactor things into more reasonable
> chunks when I set things up for real.
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> Thoughts on this?
> --=20
> Todd Fries .. todd@fries.net
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