Error writing file: A file cannot be larger than the value set by ulimit

Question

one of our NAS File system is mounted on AIX host and user is trying to transfer files which are using FTP. He could not transfer files as they are greater than 2 GB. They are getting the following error,

Error writing file: A file cannot be larger than the value set by ulimit..

Our UNIX team says that they have no control over the NAS file system and requested to check with this issue.

Is there any settings need to be done from the NAS celerra to make sure the files greaterthan 2GB can be transferred? Please help in this case.

Rainer_EMC · Answer

check if your are using NFS version 2 or 3 for the mountNFSv2 has a file size limit of 2 GB

dynamox · Answer

can you ask your AIX admin to look in /etc/security/limits ..and make sure that user account being used for FTPing has fsize and fsize_hard set to -1, which stands for unlimited.

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rgunda · Answer

Thank you all

Rainer_EMC · Answer

you're welcomecan you tell us what the problem turned out to be ?

Celerra

Error writing file: A file cannot be larger than the value set by ulimit

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