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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:04:38 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: > 4GB with NFS?
Message-ID:  <20010125110438.A23179@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101250841150.13858-100000@beppo.feral.com>; from "Matthew Jacob" on Thu Jan 25 08:45:10 GMT 2001
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0101250841150.13858-100000@beppo.feral.com>

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In the last episode (Jan 25), Matthew Jacob said:
> I came across an embarrassing comparison last night-
> 
> FreeBSD NFS clients (well, i386) stop writing files at 4GB.
> 
> Solaris, with O_LARGEFILE options in the open arguments, does not.
> 
> Does anyone here know what FreeBSD ought to be doing about this? Or
> have I missed something? There is no O_LARGEFILE in fcntl.h (it is
> present for Solaris, ConvexOS and some other platforms, I believe). I
> thought the *BSDs had > 32 bit file support? Or is it only for local
> filesystems?

FreeBSD has 64-bit file offsets by default, which make -DLARGEFILE
hackery unnecessary.

Make sure you're using NFSv3 mounts (should be the default, but if not,
add "nfsv3" to the options column in fstab).  I cross-mount FreeBSD,
Tru64, and Solaris boxes via NFS and can access large files on all
combinations of client and server.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com


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