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Hi all,
I've a 4246 GB (above 4TB) using NFSv2 to export it. Some application=20 are generating estrange errors, so it's possible I'm facing a NFS limit= ?=20
How large can a be to be exported without problems?

I'm using a 32bits architecture.

Thanks!
Jordi

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Quoted 11 lines · Jordi Prats

Hi all,
I've a 4246 GB (above 4TB) using NFSv2 to export it. Some application are generating estrange errors, so it's possible I'm facing a NFS limit? How large can a be to be exported without problems?

I'm using a 32bits architecture.

Thanks!
Jordi

NFSv2 is a 32 bit file access protocol, so don't be surprised if you see EFBIG sorts of errors on operations such as FSSTAT.

In particular, that file system size is too large to represent, I am sort of surprised that it would even be mountable.

Why not use NFSv3 or NFSv4?

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Hi Peter,
My boss is reluctant to upgrade this server, so I'm stuck to NFSv2 :( I= =20
hope this will convince him !

Thanks,
Jordi

Quoted 3 lines · Peter Staubach
Quoted 2 lines · Jordi Prats

Hi all,
I've a 4246 GB (above 4TB) using NFSv2 to export it. Some applicatio=

n=20

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are generating estrange errors, so it's possible I'm facing a NFS=20 limit? How large can a be to be exported without problems?

I'm using a 32bits architecture.

Thanks!
Jordi

=20

NFSv2 is a 32 bit file access protocol, so don't be surprised if you see EFBIG sorts of errors on operations such as FSSTAT.

Quoted 8 lines

In particular, that file system size is too large to represent, I am sort of surprised that it would even be mountable.

Why not use NFSv3 or NFSv4?

ps

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Gran Capit=E0, 2-4 (Edifici Nexus) =B7 08034 Barcelona
T. 93 205 6464 =B7 F. 93 205 6979 =B7 [email protected]
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Quoted 7 lines · Jordi Prats

Hi all,
I've a 4246 GB (above 4TB) using NFSv2 to export it. Some application are generating estrange errors, so it's possible I'm facing a NFS =20 limit?
How large can a be to be exported without problems?

I'm using a 32bits architecture.

You need NFSv3, at least. NFSv2 has various 2GiB limitations.

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Hi all,
Witch are the limits of NFSv3 and NFSv4?

I was wrong about the version I was using, we are currently using NFSv3= =2E=20
Anyone is exporting by NFS a filesystem as large (or larger) as our?

Thanks,
Jordi

Quoted 2 lines · Jordi Prats

Hi Peter,
My boss is reluctant to upgrade this server, so I'm stuck to NFSv2 :(=

I=20

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hope this will convince him !

Thanks,
Jordi

Peter Staubach wrote:
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Jordi Prats wrote:

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Hi all,
I've a 4246 GB (above 4TB) using NFSv2 to export it. Some applicati=

on=20

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are generating estrange errors, so it's possible I'm facing a NFS=20 limit? How large can a be to be exported without problems?

I'm using a 32bits architecture.

Thanks!
Jordi

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NFSv2 is a 32 bit file access protocol, so don't be surprised if you see EFBIG sorts of errors on operations such as FSSTAT.

In particular, that file system size is too large to represent, I am sort of surprised that it would even be mountable.

Why not use NFSv3 or NFSv4?

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Quoted 2 lines · Jordi Prats

Hi all,
Witch are the limits of NFSv3 and NFSv4?

If you are using NFSv3, then this may not be an NFS limitation at all. I seem to recall that some Linux kernels had issues with file systems larger than 2TB.

Which kernel version are you using?

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I was wrong about the version I was using, we are currently using NFSv3.
Anyone is exporting by NFS a filesystem as large (or larger) as our?

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Thanks,
Jordi

Quoted 34 lines · Jordi Prats

Hi Peter,
My boss is reluctant to upgrade this server, so I'm stuck to NFSv2 :
( I
hope this will convince him !

Thanks,
Jordi

Quoted 24 lines · Peter Staubach
Quoted 6 lines · Jordi Prats

Hi all,
I've a 4246 GB (above 4TB) using NFSv2 to export it. Some application
are generating estrange errors, so it's possible I'm facing a NFS limit? How large can a be to be exported without problems?

Quoted 7 lines

I'm using a 32bits architecture.

Thanks!
Jordi

NFSv2 is a 32 bit file access protocol, so don't be surprised if you see EFBIG sorts of errors on operations such as FSSTAT.

In particular, that file system size is too large to represent, I am sort of surprised that it would even be mountable.

Why not use NFSv3 or NFSv4?

ps

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