Subject: Re: > 4GB with NFS?
To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/25/2001 22:44:25
On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:58:00AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> 
> NetBSD 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 NetBSD 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?

Well, I just dd-ed a > 4G file over NFS between a NetBSD 1.5 client and
server, without problems. No special flags are needed, and never have
been.

So it would seem that your problem is either in the application
or the server.

- Frank