FTP error transferring files greater than 2GB

[Carlos Munoz Lopez]

Hello guys. I get a ftp error message when transferring a file bigger than 2GB. From command line the error is "Netout: Connection reset by peer" and WS_FTP error is "hResRead: 0, hResWrite:a0310036 452 Error writing file: Error 0". The remote server is a HP-UX 11i, and I have enough space in the file system where I want to put the file. Have any of you get this error before??? I would like some help on this. Thanks.

[Gavin Clarke · Accepted solution]

Does the target filesystem have largefiles enabled?

[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

You may be out of luck. Unless I miss my guess, /usr/lbin/ftpd is a 32bit app which means it cannot create files larger than 2 gigs.

I don't know how to verify the 'bitness' of executables, however. file doesn't seem to do it:

# file /usr/lbin/ftpd
/usr/lbin/ftpd: PA-RISC1.1 shared executable dynamically linked

Doug

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Does you filesystem allow largefiles?

Do you see the option largefiles for the filesystem in /etc/fstab?

You can modfiy it with

fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /dev/vgxx/lvolx

[Gavin Clarke]

Looks like Luk beat me to it, this link shows you how to enable largefiles with Online JFS:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=866569

#fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles /mount-point

[Carlos Munoz Lopez]

Thank you guys. You are amazing. It was the largefiles option not enabled on file system.