Originally posted by: JoachimB

I'm trying to download a 3,2GB .iso image from the web using wget (https).

I'm root on an AIX 6.1 system. My fsize is set to -1 (unlimited) and ulimit -a shows me "unlimited" for any variable.

The download always abnormally ends after 2GB, the message issued is: "Cannot write to 'aix61000_64_os_0903_us_1.gbl.dvd_iplno.iso' (Error 0)."

The target filesystem still has room for 11GB.

What may be the problem?

Originally posted by: DaveMarquardt

I think you hit the usual obvious stuff.  But I bet wget is a 32-bit application that wasn't compiled to handle large files, i.e. those over 2 GB. Without that special support, AIX overflows the file offset at 2 GB. For a 64-bit application, the file offset shouldn't be a problem.

Originally posted by: JoachimB

Thank you.

I found some old postings in the web (around 2005) with rumors, that a large file support will be implemented for WGET and was assuming, that this might have happened by now.

Is there any alternative to download a 3,2 GB file via https directly to an AIX server with a line command?
 

Originally posted by: DaveMarquardt

Where did you get wget? I wonder if there's a site with a newer package. Or you could get the source and build it, making sure it has large files support.

curl is another command line tool for downloading via https.

Originally posted by: JoachimB

I'm using wget 1.17.1-1 from  ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/wget/  . This seems to be the latest version for AIX.

Regarding curl: thanks for the tip. Will have a look at it.

Originally posted by: DaveMarquardt

Here's an interesting article about large files support. It's not just ulimit and the application, there are also filesystem issues.

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023245

Originally posted by: JoachimB

Interesting indeed. Added to my personal AIX compendium. Thank you.