NFS and the 2GB limit

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:02:34 -0400
stan <stanb at panix.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:07:56AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > hi,
> > Am Dienstag, den 11.04.2006, 20:04 -0400 schrieb stan:
> > > I'm setting up an Sun Ultra40 running the AMD64bit version of Ubuntu. 
> > > Among other things, I copy over some _big_ Oracle data files. First
> > > try today bailed at exactly 2GB. I checked the filesystem using dd
> > > and I'm able to create files on that filesystem > 2G. I'm using userland
> > > NFS.
> > > 
> > > What can I do to fix this?
> > use kernelside NFS (nfs-kernel-server), that doesnt have this
> > restriction...
> 
> Thanks, apt-cache search shows nfs-kernel-server - Kernel NFS server support
> Is this a module, or will I need to recompile the kernel? And I assume
> I should apt-get remove the user side package first, right?

As far as I know, apt should take care of conflicts for you - and no, you
don't have to recompile anything to use nfs-kernel-server.

Peter

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