Flash Archive Mounting problem

[sunny1504]

Hi All,

Last week I created Flash Archive using
#flarcreate -n fileserver -x /export/flash -c /export/flash/file-server01.flar
the flash Archive was verified by "Flar info"

The size of this flash Archive is approximately 32 gigs.

After creating the flash archive, it was moved to linux box (Redhat, Kernel version 2.4) in the directory "/flash".
/flash is shared using NFS with rw permissions to the IP entire network.

On another Solaris box, I selected to install from Flash archive over NFS, provided the path of flash archive (10.41.1.200:/flash/file-server01.flar) but I am getting the error [!]"ERROR: Could not mount archive"[/!] on the Solaris box.


After checking the logs (/var/log/messages) on linux box (10.41.1.200) I found the below mentioned error's

Jun 15 14:00:30 mum-dr2 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from 10.35.1.173:835 for :/flash/file-server01.flar (/var)
Jun 15 14:00:30 mum-dr2 rpc.mountd: can't stat exported dir /flash/file-server01.flar: Value too large for defined data type
Jun 15 14:00:38 mum-dr2 rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from 10.41.1.173:837 for /flash (/flash)

I tried to google but no joy...
Any help will be much appreciated....


Sunny D'Souza

 

[sunny1504]

Flash archive was taken of the system running OS release Solaris 9 4/04 s9s_u6wos_08a SPARC..

The destination server where the flash will be installed is booted with cd 1/2, of the same release as mentioned above...

Sunny D'souza

 

[Annihilannic]

Value too large for defined data type" sounds like the file is too big for something to handle. Whether that is NFS on the Linux box or flash itself I cannot guess.

Do you have a similar Solaris box that you can try sharing the flash archive from using NFS?

Annihilannic.

 

[sunny1504]

Annihilannic,

NFS on Linux has some problem with data handling more than 2 Gb, but meanwhile I found a work around by using FTP instead which resolves my issue.

Annihilannic thanks so much for your precious time.....