The other server is RHEL3-AS 32-bit. We nfs mount the 3.7TB filesystem onto this 32-bit 2.4 kernel server, our understanding being that since the nfs mount is a file handle and not block access to the disk, that the 32-bit system (which normally cannot access any filesystem greater than 2TB) should be able to read/write data to the nfs mounted filesystem no problem. However, we are starting to see some odd problems:
Let's say the 3.7TB filesystem is called /home/projects.
1) From FC3-64bit a 'du -sh /home/projects' completes fine. But a 'du -sh /home/projects' from the RHEL3-32bit dies with the following errors in the logs:
du: `/home/projects/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxx': Input/output error
But in fact, each time we run the du on the RHEL3-32bit system, the error catches on a different file; it's not the same files every time.
2) The nfs client is complaining that the NFS server on the FC3-64bit system is not there:
Apr 12 16:22:39 RHEL3-32bit kernel: nfs: server FC3-64bit not responding, timed out
But obviously it is there:
[root@RHEL3-32bit projects]# pwd /home/projects [root@RHEL3-32bit projects]# touch test [root@RHEL3-32bit projects]# rm test rm: remove regular empty file `test'? y [root@RHEL3-32bit projects]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdc11 3.9G 564M 3.1G 16% / /dev/sdc1 145M 70M 68M 51% /boot /dev/sdc3 20G 9.9G 8.5G 54% /itg /dev/sdc10 3.9G 146M 3.6G 4% /opt /dev/sdc5 20G 12G 7.1G 62% /os none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sdc12 2.0G 42M 1.8G 3% /tmp /dev/sdc6 9.7G 3.8G 5.5G 41% /usr /dev/sdc2 49G 11G 35G 24% /usr/local /dev/sdc8 5.8G 868M 4.7G 16% /var /dev/sdc7 7.7G 936M 6.4G 13% /var/spool/mail /dev/sda1 1.8T 1.5T 288G 84% /home/users /dev/sdb1 1.4T 429G 918G 32% /home/staff RHEL3-32bit:/home/projects 3.5T 1.8T 1.7T 52% /home/projects
I'm just not sure if mounting the large 3.7TB filesystem onto a 32-bit machine is wise or not, and now that I'm seeing these errors, I'm wondering if I should keep it unmounted.
Does anyone here have a +2TB filesystem on a 64-bit system, which they mount and rw access from a 32-bit 2.4 kernel system?
Any ideas are appreciated,
Alex
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