SUMMARY: Veritas largefiles problem

From: Vern Walls <Vern.Walls_at_parsons.com>
Date: Sun Jun 24 2001 - 00:09:35 EDT
HERE'S THE ORIGINAL PROBLEM:
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E250, used for development and testing (not production), has 4 drives, 2 in rootvg, 2 in datadg. 2nd drive in each VG was a mirror of the first. I needed some temporary disk space, so I removed the mirror in the datadg and put it in as a second drive in datadg. Created the vxfs, mounted it, and all looked good. I used vxva to accomplish 'cause I knew I was tired and was afraid I'd miss something if I did it manually. So much for that idea....

Anyway, I started copying files into it and all still looked good. 

Then I tried to create a file > 2GB in size. ulimit says "unlimited", but I still get write errors on this drive when it hits 2GB. The other drive in the datadg allows larger files, but doesn't have enough room for all that I need.

AND THE FAST REPLIES ARE APPRECIATED FROM:
melinda graham
george schlossnagle
don harris
john martinez

AND GEORGE'S WINNING DETAILED SOLUTION:  (everyone was on the right track, george was just right!

(while the file system is mounted): 

/usr/lib/fs/vxfs/fsadm -F vxfs -o largefiles <path_to_mountpoint>  

worked like a charm --- THANKS TO ALL!!!
Received on Sun Jun 24 05:09:35 2001

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