Re: NFS file size limit

[hendrik@topoi.pooq.com]

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:12:31AM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 06:24:40PM -0500, hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> > My program is writing trace output via printf to standard output on an 
> > i386 sarge system.  Standars output is redirected to an NFS-mounted 
> > reiser partition on an etch AMD64 machine.  It hit thr wall at 
> > 2147483647 bytes, giving me the message
> > 
> > File size limit exceeded
> > 
> > ls tells me 
> > 
> > -rw-r--r--  1 hendrik hendrik 2147483647 2006-03-08 09:41 traceout
> > 
> > Now how do I dismantle this limit?  Is it a printf and fprintf 
> > limit? a stdout limit? an NFS limit?  a kernel limit on one machine or 
> > the other?  Or (I suspect not) a reiser limit?
> > 
> > And how do I get around it?  I really do still have 73G free on the 
> > target partition, and I'd like to get to use them.
> > 
> > -- hendrik
> > 
> That's about 2G - that's not an uncommon file size limit on a 32 bit system.
> 
> printf - possible. NFS - more likely. Stdout - no limit I know of.

Any ideas how to get around the NFS limit?  Do different implementations 
have different limits?  I noticed, for example, that there are kernel- 
and  user-space NFS's.

-- hendrik