On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 at 9:19am, Joseph Haig wrote > Tony Schreiner wrote: > >> 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 I think that may have been the case with NFSv2, but it's definitely not with NFSv3 or v4. >> 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. Until last week, I was running a RH7.3(!) based NFS server with XFS and regularly using large files. To the OP, make sure you're using NFSv3 (at least). -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University