IgniteUX Golden Image fails (gzip)

[anand.gp]

Hi,
I am trying to take IgniteUX Golden Image of whole system. It fails saying "The gzip command failed (exit status 141)".
If I perform same operation locally i.e. "-s local" it will successfully creates 5gb image file. But if I try to do that by specifying other ip adr, it fails after making 2 gb file. Every time for any system once the gzip file crosses 2147483647 bytes it will fail.
The gzip version in client is 1.3.12 and in other system it is 1.3.5. Both server supports more than 2 gb files. As per my knowledge both gzip version supports more than 2gb files. Please help me to understand what went wrong.
The command I used is
/tmp/make_sys_image -s 16.138.181.17 -d /var/opt/ignite/archives/Rel_B.11.23
Thanks. Anand.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

It is probably not gzip but the format/setting of the file system you are trying to write to.

You can use fsadm to check the file system you are writing to.

Be sure about gzip, though if it works correctly -s local its probably not gzip.

fsadm can be used to convert /var file system to accommodate largefiles.

SEP

[Tim Nelson]

And another tip.

As the system images are relatively large. Create an additional filesystem with largefiles option and mount with largefile option at /var/opt/ignite/recovery/archives

[IG_2]

Hi,

check if your nfs server can work with files larger then 2GB. May it can't. What nfs version does it support? If 2 you are not lucky. Use 3 or 4. Your file system can have largefiles option BUT if your nfs server is sharing the file system can't treat >2GB files, you can't create or share files in right way.

Regards