On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 11:28:59AM -0500, Mike Burger wrote:
> > I'm (still) running RHL9 with Axel Thimm's 2.4.20-35_39 kernel, and ran into
> > a 2GB filesize limitation while trying to download the FC3 DVD ISO file,
> > which weighs in at about 2.6GB.
> >
> > Quotas are enabled, but I currently have hard and soft limits set to
> > unlimited.
> >
> > I was under the impression that this would not be an issue. Any help in
> > overcoming this issue would be greatly appreciated.
>
> That might be a server side issue (Some apaches have a 2GB
> barrier). Try
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/xfs/partition/bigfile bs=1M count=2600
>
> to verify whether the xfs partition can cope with 2GB+.
Sure enough...it would appear that it's the web server:
[mburger@burgers mburger]$ dd if=/dev/zero of=./bigfile bs=1M count=2600
2600+0 records in
2600+0 records out
[mburger@burgers mburger]$ ls -l bigfile
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mburger mburger 2726297600 Nov 18 15:18 bigfile
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