kiron@concour.cs.concordia.ca (The Doctor) (06/05/91)
Hi there. How would I go aboconfiguring a PS/2 with AIX to permit NFS to write files greater than 4 meg. It is possible to create the file locally, but I would like foreign file systems to write to it... thanks Kiron -- Kiron D. Bondale Concordia University, Mtl., Quebec, Canada "Can't. CAN'T. There's no such word as Can't." ... The Doctor ------------Habitat:kiron@sunkisd.CS.Concordia.CA----------------
markw@airgun.wg.waii.com (Mark Whetzel) (06/05/91)
In article <392@daily-planet.concordia.ca>, kiron@concour.cs.concordia.ca (The Doctor) writes: > Hi there. > How would I go aboconfiguring a PS/2 with AIX to permit > NFS to write files greater than 4 meg. It is possible to create the > file locally, but I would like foreign file systems to write to it... > WOW... Does AIX run in circles or what...! The RT's running AIX 2.2.1 had exactly the same problem with IBM's NFS 1.1... I had to get a update disk to NFS for 1110 (latest fix for 1.1 is NFS 1116) to fix the problem... Wonder if the same code is broken on the AIX for PS/2 systems? Seems NFS on the RT was not honoring the users ulimit, and taking the system default ulimit of 4MB! (8192 512 byte blocks) IBM's fix was to NFS and it released the ulimit for remote file writes. This was for the RT.. Don't know about what to do for AIX for PS/2 sorry :-( Call the support center, and have them check if a similar problem exists for AIX on the PS/2's.. Might be a know problem or have a workaround. --- Mark Whetzel My comments are my own, not my company's. Western Geophysical - A division of Western Atlas International, A Litton/Dresser Company DOMAIN addr: markw@airgun.wg.waii.com VOICE: (713) 963-2446 UUNET address: uunet!airgun!markw -- Mark Whetzel My comments are my own, not my company's. Western Geophysical - A division of Western Atlas International, A Litton/Dresser Company DOMAIN addr: markw@airgun.wg.waii.com VOICE: (713) 963-2446 UUNET address: uunet!airgun!markw
kiron@concour.cs.concordia.ca (The Doctor) (06/15/91)
Answering my own question here!... well, after detailed perusal of the AIX manuals a colleague was able to find out that by setting the filesize field in the /etc/passwd file for users who should be allowed more than 4 meg., AND by modifying inittab to set the ulimit to 8 Megs, AND by changing root's, and (I think) the daemon's limits to 8 megs, we were able to NFS write big files... the info was in the manuals all along...it just was not cross-ref'ed properly! Kiron -- Kiron D. Bondale Concordia University, Mtl., Quebec, Canada "Can't. CAN'T. There's no such word as Can't." ... The Doctor ------------Habitat:kiron@sunkisd.CS.Concordia.CA----------------