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10-19-2007

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File size limit exceeded... SCO ulimit?

Hello -

O/S is UnixWare 7.1.4

My prefered method of copying files between servers is 'rcp', which does not recognize symbolic links; therefore, files are duplicated many times over.

To avoid this duplication, I would like to use 'tar' and/or 'cpio' and pipe them through 'rcp', but because I have so much to copy, my tar/cpio files are exceeding 2GB in size, resulting in "File size limit exceeded".

I installed/configured these servers 2 years ago and believe I have the correct configuration for unlimited file sizes:

# idtune -g SFSZLIM
0x7FFFFFFF 0x3FFFFFFF 0x100000 0x7FFFFFFF

# idtune -g HFSZLIM
0x7FFFFFFF 0x3FFFFFFF 0x100000 0x7FFFFFFF

# ulimit
4194303

# fsadm /
largefiles

Any ideas as to why I cannot create files larger than 2GB???

I would like to aviod having to create a large number of tar/cpio archives if I can. I guess if I cannot get this resolved, I will have to find all symbolic links and avoid copying them.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you guys might have.

Dave

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ulimit

ULIMIT(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 ULIMIT(3)

NAME

       ulimit - get and set user limits

SYNOPSIS

       #include <ulimit.h>

       long ulimit(int cmd, long newlimit);

DESCRIPTION

       Warning: This routine is obsolete. The include file is no longer provided by glibc.  Use getrlimit(2), setrlimit(2) and sysconf(3) instead.
       For the shell command ulimit, see bash(1).

       The ulimit call will get or set some limit for the current process.  The cmd argument can have one of the following values.

       UL_GETFSIZE
	      Return the limit on the size of a file, in units of 512 bytes.

       UL_SETFSIZE
	      Set the limit on the size of a file.

       3      (Not implemented for Linux.)  Return the maximum possible address of the data segment.

       4      (Implemented but no symbolic constant provided.)	Return the maximum number of files that the calling process can open.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, ulimit returns a nonnegative value.	On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.

ERRORS

       EPERM  A non-root process tried to increase a limit.

CONFORMING TO

       SVID.

SEE ALSO

       bash(1), getrlimit(2), setrlimit(2), sysconf(3)

Linux 2.0							    1998-06-12								 ULIMIT(3)