Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:47:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: > 4GB with NFS? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101251046390.11014-100000@zeppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <14960.28209.622301.752510@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Matthew Jacob writes: > > > > 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? > > > > -matt > > Normal /bin/dd works fine between on 4.2-RELEASE i386s here. > > This is writing to a raid0 fs on a FreeBSD/i386 server using an nfsv3 > mount, udp, 8k read/write size: > > % dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024k count=5000 > 5000+0 records in > 5000+0 records out > 5242880000 bytes transferred in 471.673794 secs (11115479 bytes/sec) > > This is writing to a software raid5 fs on a Solaris/x86 (2.8) server > using an nfsv3 mount, udp, 8k read/write size: > > % dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024k count=5000 > 5000+0 records in > 5000+0 records out > 5242880000 bytes transferred in 1165.859965 secs (4497007 bytes/sec) > > Maybe you should look at "lmdd" ? Maybe it is either buggy, or it was > compiled a long, long time ago? Same code compiled on Solaris is happy. > (btw, this is a virgin 4.2 install, with none of my nfs opts in it). Hmm. Well, everyone sez this oughta work so I'll go and figure out why it ain't for me... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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