NFS 2GB filesize limitation?

[Mark Komarinski]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:19:15AM -0400, ken at flyingtoasters.net wrote:
> [First -- thanks to Mike for the Debian rsync script.  Running as we speak.]
> 
> I've got a file that's just a hair over 2 GB in size on my main server. 
> >From the server, when I append to it (eg. "echo >> file"), it works fine. 
> >From an NFS-mounted Linux box, I get
> 
> File size limit exceeded
> 
> I can't tell if this is a client-side or server-side (or both-side) issue,
> but does anyone know a way around it?  I'm planning on moving my HP/UX
> files onto a Linux box, but if they can't access files in excess of 2 GB,
> it ain't gonna happen.

IIRC, that's a limitation of NFSv2.  v3 is uhm...8EiB, and
I have a number of fileservers with > 2GiB files working just fine.

More info:
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

-Mark
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