Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 04:16:50 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gzip from ports vs gzip from system Message-ID: <42BEF112.4070103@meijome.net> In-Reply-To: <20050626070220.GA51206@dan.emsphone.com> References: <42BE3798.1020200@meijome.net> <20050626052603.GB9894@dan.emsphone.com> <42BE442C.9090502@meijome.net> <42BE4F33.6040101@meijome.net> <20050626070220.GA51206@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > That looks like whatever filesystem gzip was writing to couldn't handle > files over 2gb. You mentioned writing to a remote filesystem using > amd, but it defaults to NFSv3. Were you maybe writing to a FAT fs on > the remote end? You can also see whether amd actually mounted the > remote fs with NFSv2 by uncommenting the "/var/log/all.log" line in > /etc/syslog.con, touching /var/log/all.log, and restarting syslog. > Then have amd remount the remote system and check the log. > Thanks for the tip Dan. it was mounting as v2. Mounting by hand as v3 addressed the problem, though why it was dying @ 4 GB ( - 16K) instead of 2 GB baffles me. The other variable here is amd, which I wanst using for the full, correct run ( 6 GB .gz file). will see how it goes. thanks for your help, Beto
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