NFS and large files

[Carlos Fernandez]

On HP-UX11.23, running this command:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/kk bs=1024k count=X

Where /home is NFS mounted (both systems have the same OS version), If X>4000 the dd doesn´t end but the file is created with X Mbytes of size. If the command is run on the system exporting /home then there is no problem....

Any suggestion? Do you know of any NFS file size limit

[Jean-Luc Oudart · Accepted solution]

This thread may amsewer your question :
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=72952

Regards,
Jean-Luc

[Carlos Fernandez]

Thank you, the problem seems to be:

/home not mounted with largefiles option, then need to do an exportfs -a again

A surprise for me is that without largefiles option, locally is possible to write files bigger than 2GB in size