Dave Howorth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I have a server that's been running fine for some years with Suse 9.2.
> I've just installed 10.3 and am now getting 'File size limit exceeded'
> errors.
>
> The access is being made by an application on another box, running 9.2.
> It's trying to copy a 2.7 GB file from a local disk to a filesystem on
> the server that it's mounting using NFS. The filesystem is reiserfs and
> was not changed when I upgraded the OS. Both machines are 64-bit. The
> application has worked fine for years but now says:
>
>   File size limit exceeded
>
> I don't have a file size limit (file size   (blocks, -f) unlimited)
>
> Google showed it may be a restriction of NFS V2 though why that is now
> running is another mystery. rpcinfo and nfsstat shows that server and
> client are both running both v2 and v3. I haven't been able so far to
> find out which version is in use for a particular mount. How can I do that?
>
> Does anybody recognize these symptoms?

You might use the old reiserfs format which cannot cope with files
larger than 2 GB - or one of the tools in 9.2 cannot,

Andreas
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