TRU64 5.1 File size limits

[Cara Rollins]

There appears to be something odd with file limits When copying files (cp) I'm getting an odd 'Exceeded file size limit' message.

cp -R /dir1/dir1.2 /dir2

Any ideas? I'm copying 52 GB of data and it quits after about 20GB.

Does anyone know of any file size limits? I'm assuming it's hitting a large file and stopping.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

are we talking about AdvFS?

greetings,

Michael

[Ivan Ferreira]

Check your session limits with ulimit -a. I think that you have file limit set:

ulimit -a
time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) 4194304
stack(kbytes) 32768
memory(kbytes) 16322280
coredump(blocks) unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) 4096
vmemory(kbytes) 8388608

Use ulimit -f to modify the value.

[MUM_HPS]

Hello Mr Cara Rollins

This Error is due to the number of files in the source directory and has nothing to do with the size of individual files.
You can try copying limited files (may be a set of 200 files)
This will resolve your issue.

Thanx
Manmohan

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

aren't you mistaking that with the resolution of * by the shell? Since he is copying recursively, this should be no problem.

greetings,

Michael

[Cara Rollins]

This is advfs, yes.

[Cara Rollins]

It isn't the ulimit settings. The settings are the same as another server where the copy works fine.

time(seconds) unlimited
file(blocks) unlimited
data(kbytes) 131072
stack(kbytes) 8192
memory(kbytes) 2040360
coredump(blocks) unlimited
nofiles(descriptors) 4096
vmemory(kbytes) 4194304

[Cara Rollins]

It is definitely the file size. I get the same error copying one 1 GB file.

[Cara Rollins]

Also, the files over 1GB are getting truncated to 1GB.

[Ivan Ferreira]

Are you using quotas on that file system? use quota/repquota to verify that.