Tony Schreiner wrote: > This may not be a CentOS problem, because I'm in a mixed environment. > But I put it out in case anybody has any thoughts. > > I recently replaced a file server, which was on a Pentium III based > system running 32-bit CentOS 4.3, with an Opteron based system > running Fedora 4. The NFS clients are all CentOS 4.3, some are 32 bit > and some are 64 bit. > > Since the replacement, when I try to write a big file from the 32bit > CentOS boxes over NFS to the server, I get "filesize exceed > messages" at 2GB. However this used to work with the old server. And > I can write big files if I'm logged on to the server. > I belive that the maximum file size for an NFS partition is 2G, so I am surprised that you didn't see the problem before replacing the server. I got round this problem by using ssh, but this probably isn't going to be of use if you need to use the files frequently. > One more oddity, the shared file system on the server is xfs > formatted; if I instead mount a reiserfs file system I can > successfully write. This part does not make sense to me. > Maybe the limit doesn't come from just NFS but a combination of NFS and the filesystem.