On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 16:33, Robert G. (Doc) Savage
<dsavage(a)peaknet.net> wrote:
Bruno,
I think I found at least part of the problem here. The Downloads
directory in my home folder is bind mounted to an NFS filesystem on an
RHEL5 server. For some reason the iso file is being severely truncated
by that NFS filesystem:
Here's the original file in a 1.1TB ext3 filesystem:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
Sunday - October 31, 2010 17:16:56 CDT
[doc@lion] /pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Live
$ ls -l
total 5463812
-rw------- 1 doc doc 950 Oct 21 09:17 Fedora-14-Live-multi-CHECKSUM
-rw------- 1 doc doc 5589458944 Oct 21 10:06 Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso
drwxrwxr-x 2 doc doc 4096 Oct 26 20:02 i386
drwxrwxr-x 2 doc doc 4096 Oct 26 20:02 x86_64
Here's the NFS-exported version as seen on the F13 system, the one
running l-i-t-d:
Fedora release 13 (Goddard)
Sunday - October 31, 2010 16:55:17 CDT
[doc@tiger] /net/lion/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Live
$ ls -l
total 5463812
-rw------- 1 doc doc 950 Oct 21 09:17 Fedora-14-Live-multi-CHECKSUM
-rw------- 1 doc doc 1294491648 Oct 21 10:06 Fedora-14-Live-multi.iso
drwxrwxr-x 2 doc doc 4096 Oct 26 20:02 i386
drwxrwxr-x 2 doc doc 4096 Oct 26 20:02 x86_64
Curiously, the difference in file sizes is precisely 4GB. Is this a bug,
or normal behavior for NFS?
Possibly a bug, depends on if the RHEL server is 64 bit or not, and
you are using NFSv3 (and in TCP). It supposedly works in UDP but I
have had problems myself with large files like that.
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
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