diff --git a/doc/bugs/__34__Cannot_handle_files_this_big__34___error_for_unlocked_files/comment_4_8a43d4e00c6b48999fe84d2f7ad55877._comment b/doc/bugs/__34__Cannot_handle_files_this_big__34___error_for_unlocked_files/comment_4_8a43d4e00c6b48999fe84d2f7ad55877._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..b405fe3858 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/__34__Cannot_handle_files_this_big__34___error_for_unlocked_files/comment_4_8a43d4e00c6b48999fe84d2f7ad55877._comment @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="braun.markus89@51b521a42cc994db864df308627bd6454f9c309d" + nickname="braun.markus89" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/c11d06a0d9db6a9472b05ee01c342ca4" + subject="comment 4" + date="2020-05-25T11:06:05Z" + content=""" +git version is 2.26.1, so this should be fine. + +I guess, git-annex couldn't do it any better, still git tries to overallocate memory. +My Synology NAS only got 1gb of memory (at least 600mb are used all the time), so I wonder why \"hanging up\" the pipe works when unlocking 1gb file but not for 2gb. But the Synology linux is a little bit weird, so I have to give up on debugging there. The 1gb memory spec of my NAS is ridiculously low (maybe too low for git anyways) and cannot be upgraded.... + +For the sake of documentation for other synology users with a low-spec NAS + +Workaround that did work + +* create a user with uid/gid matching the NAS user and mount via NFSv3. On the client system the memory is sufficient to run every git-annex command. + +Workarounds that did not work out + +* NFSv4 with idmapping (configuring the Kerberos authentication would have taken a lot of time and not even sure if it would have worked out in the end) +* SSHFS (the sshfs server provided by Synology seems to be broken, resulting in broken symlinks on my linux client system -> which is obviously a no go for git annex ;-) ) + + +"""]]