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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 1998 15:50:33 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de>
To:        rotel@indigo.ie
Cc:        tom@uniserve.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: maximum file size with NFS?
Message-ID:  <199804121350.PAA19332@intern>
In-Reply-To: <199804111940.UAA06687@indigo.ie> from Niall Smart at "Apr 11, 98 08:40:28 pm"

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> On Apr 11, 12:23pm, Tom wrote:
> } Subject: maximum file size with NFS?
> > 
> >   What is the maximum file size supported by NFS?  It seems the limit is
> > 2GB as I can't work with files bigger than that with NFS.
> 
> 2GB is a typical maximum file size under UNIX, the UNIX community
> have already published a standard API which handles 64bit file
> sizes but AFAIK I don't believe FreeBSD supports it, yet (?) nor

I regularly do backups via tar which creates files up to 18GB
here on a 2.2.6 system.

	-Andre

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