Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 14:03:43 -0700 From: John Clark <jclark@metricsystems.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS problem -- solved. Message-ID: <463A4E2F.9050204@metricsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <4638C84E.2000704@metricsystems.com> References: <4638C84E.2000704@metricsystems.com>
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John Clark schrieb: > I am copying a 'disk image' to an NFS mounted volume. > > I'm using: > > dd if=/dev/ad0 of=Disk.img > > After dd completes the number of blocks indicated is what the raw disk > device should > be. However, when I look at the NFS mounted image, the file size is > anything but the > 80 GB size it should be. I looked in to this, and what is happing, is this. I'm booting a FreeBSD diskless node, to 'clone' the existing harddrive. The FreeBSD boot code apparently mounts the root file system usin NFS V2, which has the 2.5 GB (or so) file size limit, due to using only a signed 32 bit integer for file size. This was found in the 'pxe' boot code. By executing an explicit 'mount' command with the '-3' option, I selected NFS V3, which does not have this limitation, and was able to copy a previously captured 80 GB image onto the harddrive. I'll check the other way around after I do an fsck on the resulting cloned drive. John Clark.
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