[OpenAFS] Volume, and file size limits

[Hartmut Reuter]

Thomas Vincent wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone,
>  From what I have been told.
> There is a file size limit of 2gb.
> A volume size limit of 8gb.
> 
> Is this a 32-bit vs 64-bit issue? Can this issue be easily solved. Is
> anyone working on this?

The file size < 2GB is mainly an issue of the offset and size variables
used in the client and in the RPCs. MR-AFS allows on the server side
since two years files >= 2GB, but you could write or read them only
bypassing the kernel code of the AFS client. Since some months I am
working on the client side and we have a rs_aix42 client with large file
support already in production.

The 8 GB volume size limit is only a recommendation. There is no reason
in the coding not to have bigger volumes. It's more a question of
managability and dumping. With MR-AFS you may have data migration and
therefore much bigger volumes, anyway. Our biggest volumes have ~ 800
GB.

Hartmut



> For some of us this could  become a major show stopper.
> 
> Cheers,
> Thomas Vincent
> Apple IS&T
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