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Date:      Thu, 13 Jan 2011 20:55:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS: file too large
Message-ID:  <201101140455.p0E4tMvG067765@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <1620435629.209827.1294961913954.JavaMail.root@erie.cs.uoguelph.ca>

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:Try editting line #1226 of sys/nfsclient/nfs_vfsops.c, where
:it sets nm_maxfilesize = (u_int64_t)0x80000000 * DEV_BSIZE - 1; and make it
:something larger.
:
:I have no idea why the limit is set that way? (I'm guessing it was the
:limit for UFS.) Hopefully not some weird buffer cache restriction or
:similar, but you'll find out when you try increasing it.:-)

    This is a throwback to when the buffer cache used 32 bit block numbers,
    hence 0x7FFFFFFF was the maximum 'safe' block number multiplied by
    the lowest supported block size (DEV_BSIZE), that could be handled by
    the buffer cache.

    That limit is completely irrelevant now and should probably be set to
    0x7FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFLLU (since seek offsets are signed).

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>



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