[Samba] File size limit = 2G?
Ed Struzynski
eds at pdq.net
Tue Jan 28 17:24:13 GMT 2003
Hello All,
I'm running Samba 2.2.7a on RedHat 8.0. Connecting to a Windows 2000
200GB share works OK, except for files > 2 GBytes.
The linux box can see the large Windows files, but does not see their
correct sizes -- it reports an absurdly big size when using ls -l. Files
less
that 2GB show up correctly. Trying to create a 3G file on the Windows box
from the linux box, using:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/ntserver/bigfile bs=100M count=30
results in an error when the file hits 2G, with the error "file size
limit exceeded". Running the same command creating a file on the local
linux ext3 filesystem works OK.
Removing the Windows box from the equation, instead connecting to another
linux box running samba results in the same error. Creating a 3G file
on the same target system using NFS works OK, as does FTP.
So it appears that Samba supports large filesystems, but not large
files. Is this a configuration issue or a 32bit limitation in Samba??
I've tried samba-3.0alpha21-1 and it has the same problem.
thanks,
Ed S.
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