From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261255AbVCGTPY (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:15:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261290AbVCGTMa (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:12:30 -0500 Received: from mail.logixonline.com ([216.201.128.36]:32018 "EHLO mail.logixonline.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261268AbVCGTIw (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Mar 2005 14:08:52 -0500 Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:08:49 -0600 From: Chuck Campbell To: Trond Myklebust Cc: campbell@accelinc.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NFS problem in 2.4.21 (RHEL ES 3 upd 2) Message-ID: <20050307190849.GB18702@helium.inexs.com> Reply-To: campbell@accelinc.com Mail-Followup-To: Chuck Campbell , Trond Myklebust , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050307163711.GB11949@helium.inexs.com> <1110218547.11489.32.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1110218547.11489.32.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 01:02:27PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > må den 07.03.2005 Klokka 10:37 (-0600) skreiv Chuck Campbell: > > I've just built a cluster of dual Opteron boxes, running RHEL 3 update 2 > > x86_64 OS. > > > > I have problems creating files larger than 2GB on an NFS mounted filesystem. > > > > Are you perhaps using NFSv2? If so, I suggest you try NFSv3, as the > NFSv2 protocol does not support 64-bit file sizes. OK, that fixed it. It certainly wasn't apparent from the docs I plowed through for the last two days, and I never turned up that gem on Google either. Even the NFS-howto didn't point this out, so I'll submit some update info to them. Sorry for the noise. -chuck