problem: file is too large
Hi everybody, I have problem with udp-receiver, it is unable to store files larger than 2GB. I have read older post and found some work around (udp-receiver > image.gz) but this did not work either. my config is: CPU P4 2,4GHz, RAM 512 DDR, HDD WD 120GB, NIC RTL8139 (8139too driver), i run debian woody orignaly (2.2) kernel but i upgraded to 2.4.18-686, i use udpcast 20030831, partition where i store image i big enough and has reiserfs i administer small lan, about 15 winxp boxes any hints? thanx, der3k --
Using redhat9 on a Pentium 3 machine (I don't have the specific config) I was able to store files up to at least 5GB, using only $ udp-receiver -f filename Also, we restored zipped backups of entire partitions (zipped files, original size up to 10GB) like this: # udp-receiver -p "cat" | gzip -dc | dd of=$OUTPUTDEVICE Maybe you can use a modified version of that line. As for your problem: what exactly happens? Are you getting any kind of errors? Hope this helps - Guus At 09:59 21-11-2003, Richard Sikora wrote:
Hi everybody, I have problem with udp-receiver, it is unable to store files larger than 2GB. I have read older post and found some work around (udp-receiver > image.gz) but this did not work either.
my config is: CPU P4 2,4GHz, RAM 512 DDR, HDD WD 120GB, NIC RTL8139 (8139too driver), i run debian woody orignaly (2.2) kernel but i upgraded to 2.4.18-686, i use udpcast 20030831, partition where i store image i big enough and has reiserfs
i administer small lan, about 15 winxp boxes
any hints?
thanx, der3k
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Hi Richard, Yes, I can help, I can help!!! I'm sure you'll get a few responses on this one, but the problem isn't UDPcast, it's your file system. You're file system is probably ext2 which can't handle large file sizes. I'd recommend moving your file system to ext3. I forget the exact command, but checking out the man pages for mkfs for mke2fs will tell you how to do that. Nate Sbar. --- Richard Sikora <sikora@gympol.cz> wrote:
Hi everybody, I have problem with udp-receiver, it is unable to store files larger than 2GB. I have read older post and found some work around (udp-receiver > image.gz) but this did not work either.
my config is: CPU P4 2,4GHz, RAM 512 DDR, HDD WD 120GB, NIC RTL8139 (8139too driver), i run debian woody orignaly (2.2) kernel but i upgraded to 2.4.18-686, i use udpcast 20030831, partition where i store image i big enough and has reiserfs
i administer small lan, about 15 winxp boxes
any hints?
thanx, der3k
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 04:53:44AM -0800, Nathaniel Sbar wrote:
Hi Richard,
Yes, I can help, I can help!!! I'm sure you'll get a few responses on this one, but the problem isn't UDPcast, it's your file system. You're file system is probably ext2 which can't handle large file sizes.
ext2 isn't limited to files of 2G. from the limitations section of /usr/src/linux/Documentation/filesystems/ext2.txt: Filesystem block size: 1kB 2kB 4kB 8kB File size limit: 16GB 256GB 2048GB 2048GB Filesystem size limit: 2047GB 8192GB 16384GB 32768GB
Hi everybody, I have problem with udp-receiver, it is unable to store files larger than 2GB. I have read older post and found some work around (udp-receiver > image.gz) but this did not work either.
my config is: CPU P4 2,4GHz, RAM 512 DDR, HDD WD 120GB, NIC RTL8139 (8139too driver), i run debian woody orignaly (2.2) kernel but i upgraded to 2.4.18-686, i use udpcast 20030831, partition where i store image i big enough and has reiserfs
i administer small lan, about 15 winxp boxes
any hints?
thanx, der3k
Oops. Sorry about the empty email... Achem! Anyway, I was going to say, we had the same problem, but we fixed it by piping through dd. Our problem seemed to be on the sender though... here's what we did... udp-sender --nokbd --max-bitrate 80m --pipe "dd if=/home/image/disk.img" The nokbd and max-bitrate are for unrelated problems... Maybe some simler dd trickery would help your problem. -Dylan
Hi everybody, I have problem with udp-receiver, it is unable to store files larger than 2GB. I have read older post and found some work around (udp-receiver > image.gz) but this did not work either.
my config is: CPU P4 2,4GHz, RAM 512 DDR, HDD WD 120GB, NIC RTL8139 (8139too driver), i run debian woody orignaly (2.2) kernel but i upgraded to 2.4.18-686, i use udpcast 20030831, partition where i store image i big enough and has reiserfs
i administer small lan, about 15 winxp boxes
any hints?
thanx, der3k
Hi everybody, today i tried on my reiserfs partion: # dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1024 count=10240000 which should create obout 10GB big file and i got such a result: dd: writing 'test': File too large 2097153+0 records in 2097152+0 records out newly created file is 2GB big so now i see that there is no problem with upd-receiver but with my fs or kernel thanx for your hints Richard
good article explaining where is problem with creating big (<2GB) files on linux is here http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html richard
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