rsync to a destination > 8TB problem...

[Matt Miller]

Actually... a cp -r has the same issues... anyone seen this?

BTW, I'm on SuSE 9.1 (personal) with the 2.6 kernel, lvm2, reiserfs, 2G 
RAM, 2G swap

matt

On Aug 10, 2004, at 4:41 PM, Matt Miller wrote:

> I am trying to use a large (10TB) reiserfs filesystem as an rsync 
> target.  The filesystem is on top of lvm2 (pretty sure this doesn't 
> matter, but just in case.)  I get the following error when trying to 
> sync a modest set of files to that 10TB target (just syncing /etc for 
> now):
>
> rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes: phase "unknown": 
> Broken pipe
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(836)
>
> When I encountered the error, I suspected a problem with the 
> filesystem size, so I started testing with 2TB, 4TB, 8TB filesystems.  
> (I started with 2TB and grew the LV and resized the reiserfs each 
> time.)  Just under 8TB (7.45TB) everything worked fine.  After going 
> just over 8TB (8.45TB) I got the error again.
>
> Just for kicks, I tried syncing a single new file and that worked.  I 
> then tried syncing a single new directory, and that worked as well.  
> You can see below these steps, as well as the directory the original 
> /etc sync failed on.  I have listed the contents of that directory and 
> the following directory in case it has pertinence here.
>
> Is anyone else using > 8TB targets for rsync with success?  I have 
> kept this to a local rsync to eliminate variables with 
> ssh/rsyncd/network.
>
> thanks in advance,
>
> matt
>
>
>
> Matt Miller
> IT Infrastructure
> Duke - Fuqua School of Business--
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Matt Miller
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