Just a little FYI, EXT2 does not have a 2GB file size limit on 2.4.x
kernels. Perhaps trying the same thing with ext2 would help determine the
problem. I didn't beleive it when people said I coudl make larger files on
ext2, so I tried it myself. and indeed, they were right! I hope this help
you figure out the real source of the problem.
RegEx
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Sean Dougherty wrote:
>
> This might be an xfs issue or not. I am not sure. The following only
> seems to happen when I have files over 2G in size, hence I only see it
> on the XFS partitions.
>
> I am using the cvs as of 2/27/01. Any partitions are created with
>
> mkfs -t -f -d unwritten=0 -l size=32768b /dev/hdxx
> they are mounted with
> mount -t -o logbufs=4,logbsize=32768 /dev/hdxx /xfs
>
> these are ide drives with both dma and multi count on (all maxtor drives
> at the moment)
>
> I create a directory under /xfs called test then export /xfs/test as an
> NFS file system to a sun box 5.8 (I have nfs3 compiled in the kernel of
> the xfs box). Now it gets weird.
>
> >From the sun box I nfs mount xfs-server:/xfs/test to /testxfs that works fine
> from the sun box I tar some files to the /testxfs. All is fine and
> dandy...then at some point, and no it never happens at the same place twice,
> the tar dies with a write error. usually rpc timeout.
>
> >From the sun box I do a df or an ls of /testxfs and after a fashion I get
> another rpc timeout. But on the xfs-server, if I cd to /xfs/test and try
> to do an ls 9 times out of 10 ls will hang. Nothing short of rebooting
> the box will bring it back. Also nfs is also hung (cannot kill rpc.nfsd).
> The 10th time though I get from the ls "cannot stat ." also nfs if hung.
> After this reboot I have to do an xfs_repair. One of the many strange
> things is, I can ls /xfs all day...it is just the /xfs/test that is broken.
>
> Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone have any ideas.
>
> I have tried with ext2 file systems and they seem to work...but again I
> never move a 2G+ file to them.
>
> I am checking with samba next to see if this is an nfs ism.
>
> Sean
> Manager of way too much
> TTUHSC At Amarillo
> sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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