On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 11:42:40AM +0100, Jim Hatfield wrote: > I've made a large .mpg file on a Linux machine (because some > tools, such as mplex, are newer than available in FreeBSD ports). > > Here's a directory listing: > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 jim users 4388444160 Jun 2 23:15 movie.mpg > > I want to burn it to DVD but the burner is on a BSD box, so > I nfs-mount the /home partition. However when I look at the > same file from FreeBSD 5.1 I get: > > >-rw-r--r-- 1 jim 100 93476864 Jun 3 00:15 movie.mpg > > (yes I know there is a time zone issue. I haven't worked > out how to set it on Gentoo yet). > > The difference between the sizes is 4294967296, ie 2^32. > > Anyone know if this is an issue with the NFS implementations > or whether the NFS protocols have a 32-bit size limit?
The mount_nfs manpage tells you:
-2 Use the NFS Version 2 protocol (the default is to try version 3
first then version 2). Note that NFS version 2 has a file size
limit of 2 gigabytes.
Linux used to, and maybe still does, have stability problems with
NFSv3, so the default was/is to use NFSv2. FreeBSD has no such
problems :)
Kris
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