[SunHELP] Solaris 2.6 limitations?

[Edward Chase]

Filesystem is mounted with the largefiles option...

/disk2 on /dev/dsk/c1t6d0s0 setuid/read/write/largefiles on Fri Sep 21 
14:52:57 2001

And there room (someone else's thought)

/dev/dsk/c1t6d0s0    8780856 3991543 4701505    46%    /disk2



At 09:02 AM 10/3/2001 +0200, Frank-Christian Kruegel wrote:

>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.
>
>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
> >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
> >this be true?

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