NFS and the 2GB limit

[stan]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 12:11:35PM +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
> 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.
Well, I removeved the userland nfs server, and appt-get installed 
nfs-kernel-server, all that went fine, and I was able to test mount the f
ilesystem in question from the client

Bit, tonights copying of files had the large files cut off again at exactly
2G. The NFS clinet machine is an HP-UX machine, and this backup used to
be done to a Debian based X86 machine with kernel 2.4.23, and the largefiles
used to work perfectly on that setup. I;m using the exact same exports
lines on the new Ubuntu machine, and, again, I've tested the destination
filessystm on it with dd to assure that they support largefiles.

What do I need to check next?

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