[PVFS-users] Re: Filesystem limitations on pvfs volumes

[Robert Latham]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 04:04:28PM -0700, Max Okumoto wrote:
> Hi,
> I am using pvfs-1.6.0 on a rocks 3.1 (linux cluster), and I am running
> into some strange size limitations.  I can't seem to create files over
> 35Gbytes in size.  Is there a maximum filesystem size for pvfs?

you have 15 io servers, and if you did not build pvfs with the
'--enable-lfs' option, 35GB is roughly what the maximum file size
would be.  

'--enable-lfs' is the default behavior in PVFS now, but w/o
it you are limited to 2GB*N, where N is the number of IO servers.

==rob

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