nfs question

[Robert Thurlow]

In <46047 at mips.mips.COM> gboja at mips.COM (Glenda Boja Ramil) writes:

>I was informed that Cray's i(Unicos) version of NFS supports files greater than
>4Gs.  Is this true?  If so, I would like to know what filesize attribute
>is returned to a client that can't support files greater than 4Gs.   For 
>example: a client issues a command "ls -al" on a mounted filesystem under
>a subdirectory which has files greater than 4Gs.

If they support it, they are violating the NFS protocol; rev. 2 simply
can't express file sizes like this in any form, period.  If Cray has
done this, it isn't really NFS(TM) anymore.  It hurts us, too, but we
can't do much until Sun gets off their cans and releases a new protocol
revision, which they've been saying they'd do for two years.

Rob T
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