My newer slackware machines (I guess 9.0 or later, but
maybe 8.1) are OK with large files.

I have a set of older machines that have been continuously
upgraded from 3.2 (now at glibc-2.3.2, kernel-2.4.26,
gcc-3.2.2, binutils-2.13.2.1 etc, all of which have
been compiled from source).
These machines will only write files about 1073M.
This is 1G and not the supposed 2G limit.

I upgrade all machines in step by compiling from source,
the only difference (that I know of) in the two sets
of machines is that some started at 8.1/9.0 and the
rest started at 3.2.

The test is

dd if=/dev/zero of=./zero.zero bs=1000000 count=3000

the test will either run to completion with a 3G file
or exit with an error like "file too big" leaving a 1G file.

o dd seems to be OK
running dd under strace I see that it has largefile support.

o the file system seems to be OK
I can nfs export the filesystem and have another machine write a
file larger than 1G.

Since the only libraries that dd depend on are from glibc, I installed
glibc binaries from the tgz file from slackware-9.1 but still the largest
file I can make is 1G.

I've looked in google, at all the sites telling how to upgrade to
large file support (all seem to need flags in the compiles, but
I can't figure out how to set those flags for the glibc compile
since glibc has its own configure script - I did spend a few
days trying though).

Anyone know why I have a 1G file limit and how to fix it?

Thanks Joe

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mack wrote:

> My newer slackware machines (I guess 9.0 or later, but
> maybe 8.1) are OK with large files.
>
> I have a set of older machines that have been continuously
> upgraded from 3.2 (now at glibc-2.3.2, kernel-2.4.26,
> gcc-3.2.2, binutils-2.13.2.1 etc, all of which have
> been compiled from source).
> These machines will only write files about 1073M.
> This is 1G and not the supposed 2G limit.
>
> I upgrade all machines in step by compiling from source,
> the only difference (that I know of) in the two sets
> of machines is that some started at 8.1/9.0 and the
> rest started at 3.2.
>
> The test is
>
> dd if=/dev/zero of=./zero.zero bs=1000000 count=3000
>
> the test will either run to completion with a 3G file
> or exit with an error like "file too big" leaving a 1G file.
>
> o dd seems to be OK
> running dd under strace I see that it has largefile support.
>
> o the file system seems to be OK
> I can nfs export the filesystem and have another machine write a
> file larger than 1G.
>
> Since the only libraries that dd depend on are from glibc, I installed
> glibc binaries from the tgz file from slackware-9.1 but still the largest
> file I can make is 1G.
>
> I've looked in google, at all the sites telling how to upgrade to
> large file support (all seem to need flags in the compiles, but
> I can't figure out how to set those flags for the glibc compile
> since glibc has its own configure script - I did spend a few
> days trying though).
>
> Anyone know why I have a 1G file limit and how to fix it?
>
> Thanks Joe

You must have 4k block sizes.

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NeoSadist wrote:
>

> You must have 4k block sizes.

Thanks for the reply.

I assume you mean that to get files >1GB I need to be
using 4k block sizes.

I hadn't thought of that, but it turns out that I already
am using 4k blocks.

eg a disk with 4k block size on a machine that will only
write a 1GB file - if I then nfs export to a machine that will
write a file >2GB on its own file systems, the disk will now
accept files >2G when written by the other machine.
So it doesn't seem to be a function of the filesystem.

All machines are using e2fsprogs v1.32 from Nov 2002

Any other suggestions?

Thanks
Joe

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Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina
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generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml
Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux!