[rhn-users] nfs limit on tarred files?

[Doctor Khumalo]

Hi there -

I'm having problem with NFS mounts. This occurs in all flavors of Red Hat. 
Here is what happens:

I have an nfs mount from a server(python:/backup) to a  directory called 
/backup on my local server, monty. After installing RHEL 4 on monty, I mount 
the nfs server(python:/backup) and then try to copy over tarred directories 
from the newly mounted /backup. The directory is 34 GB and is tarred into a 
single .tar file. When I try to untar the directory/files to the / 
partition, it freezes and stops copying files ove. Here's what I do

cd /
tar -xf /backups/files.tar


Any idea if there is a size limit to untarring files on an NFS mount?

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