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

[Hartmut Reuter]

File size limit exceeded means you have a limit for your file size.
Check with "limit".
Probably you are on AIX where the default limit is set to 1 GB. Let the 
administrator change this witch "smitty".

-Hartmut

Bernhard Gueth wrote:
> Hello everybody !
> 
> 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".
> Digging in the net has not been very successful. Is there a way to get 
> around the 2GB file size limit ? Is there anyone who wrote a patch to 
> solve the problem ?
> 
> Thanks alot
> bye
> b.g.
> 


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