NFS and XFS

Hi Guys,

I am using my OMV 4.x build as a repository for my backups for my VMware environment. As such, I have a VM called Backups that is stored via NFS on my OMV.

Everything has been working fine with both NFS3 and NFS4.1 and VMware. However, recently, I needed to make my backup bigger and there is a filesize limitation with EXT4 of 16 TB. So...I moved my data and changed my OMV rig to use XFS instead.

Now that I have done that, I can mount the share via NFS3 at /export/nfs-rig just fine on my ESXi servers. However, everytime I attempt to mount via NFS4.1 at /nfs-rig (notice no /export), it does not work.

So...is there some reason that NFS4.1 and XFS do not play well together?

Did I find a bug?

Jim

You need to re-read my post....its not a limitation of the 16tb filesystem....its a limitation of the filesize on the filesystem...16tb is the limit of a individual file on the filesystem in EXT4.

Since I am using a VM and the virtual hard disk is bigger than 16TB, it is created as a single file...thus EXT4 doesn't really work for me. I could use multiple files and combine them inside the VM, but I prefer to not do that.

Jim

By the way, thanks for your response...I reread my response and realized I sound kinda snarky...my apologies.