[SUN] Can't see large (>2GB) files from SGI systems

From: David Foster (foster@dim.ucsd.edu)
Date: Thu May 02 2002 - 17:45:22 EDT


Platform: SunOS cressida 5.8 Generic_108528-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-80

Problem:

   On two E420R systems with recent recommended patches applied and
   at Solaris 8 (10/01), we cannot see large (> 2GB) files on their
   NFS mounts from our SGI systems running IRIX 6.5.14:
   
      $ ls -l /auto/keck1f
      ls: /auto/keck1f/data3G.tif: File too large

   Other file utilities fail, as do basic C system calls.
   
   The NFS mounts are both T3 and A5100 disk arrays (only A5100's under
   Veritas VM control), so this isn't related to VxVM. All disk
   arrays are attached via fibre.
   
   I don't think this is an IRIX problem because we can see large
   files on shares from all of our other Sun systems (U80, U60, E450).
   What's even stranger, we can also see large files on the E420Rs'
   system disk.
   
   The only difference with these two systems is that they were
   set up for us by Sun SE personnel. The recommended patch cluster
   installed on them is more recent than some of our other systems, so
   I'm stumped.
   
Has anyone else seen this behavior before?

Dave Foster

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