I'm not sure if this is a networking / NFS problem, of a general one, but since there are a number of "file size limit exceeded" problems here, I though I'd try here....

Having problems creating files that are larger than 2GB
across an NFS connection.

- I can create/copy >2gb files on both systems when 'local'.
- If I do ulimit -a both systems report that fspace is unlimited
- I've updated nfs-utils on both systems to the very latest
- Have set a default fsize of unlimited in /etc/security/limits.conf

But, when I try to copy a large file (>2GB) from my 'client' to the
server machine, I get "file size limit exceeded" when it hits 2GB.
I can copy a large file from the NFS Server to the client machine
with no apparent problem. (This tends to make me think it's a
local file size limit, rather than a nfs version problem.)

Both systems are RedHat 9.0. The server is a 2.6.9 kernel and the
client is 2.4.20 and both appear to be enabled for NFS V3 (although
the server is a 'packaged' system and I haven't been able to track
through the full build structure...) The NFS Server is set up with a
separate large file system (1 TB in size) using ext2 file system.

I think I'm still getting nfs ver 2 on the server...("rcpinfo -p"
reports vers 2) I'm not sure how I can force Ver 3 (if it
will make any difference).

Thanks for any suggestions

I don't think its an NFS system but filesystem issue with the kernel? Is your current kernel compiled with larger file support?

Because of how the nfs system was built, I am having trouble locacting the config file(s), but I don't think that is the problem because I can create > 2GB files with no problem when I am 'local' on either system. The problem only happens when going across the nfs connection. If the kernel was the problem, I don't think I'd be able to create >2GB files at all....

Thanks for the thought though.....