[SunHELP] Solaris 2.6 limitations?

Wed Oct 3 02:02:20 CDT 2001

On Tue, 02 Oct 2001 15:37:27 -0400, you wrote:

>I've got an old (Intel) Solaris 2.6 server.
>
>I'm trying to tar up some stuff to a file.  It keeps crapping out on me =
in=20
>the same place.
>
>tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
>
>I'm thinking that the machine can't create a file greater than 2GB.  =
Might=20
>this be true?

Solaris for Sparc does not have the 2GB limitation. I don't know about =
the Intel
version. Just do a mount

bash-2.02# mount
/ on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0 read/write/setuid/largefiles on Thu Sep 13 =
07:17:18 2001
/usr on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s6 read/write/setuid/largefiles on Thu Sep 13 =
07:17:18
2001
/proc on /proc read/write/setuid on Thu Sep 13 07:17:18 2001
/dev/fd on fd read/write/setuid on Thu Sep 13 07:17:18 2001
/var on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s7 read/write/setuid/largefiles on Thu Sep 13 =
07:17:18
2001
/usr/local/news/spool on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s3 setuid/read/write/largefiles =
on Thu
Sep 13 07:17:19 2001
/backup on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s4 setuid/read/write/largefiles on Thu Sep 13 =
07:17:19
 2001
/tmp on swap read/write on Thu Sep 13 07:17:19 2001
/var/run on swap read/write on Thu Sep 13 07:17:19 2001
/var/spool/locks on swap read/write on Thu Sep 13 07:17:19 2001
bash-2.02#

You see that all partitions are mounted with the largefile option. If =
this
option is present you can create large files, if not you can't.

The applications also have to be compiled with the LARGE_FILES #define. =
The
system supplied tools should have been compiled accordingly.

Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen

Dipl.-Ing. Frank-Christian Kr=FCgel
IstDa Kommunikationssysteme