[Samba] smbfs size limit

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Hello, Andrew Bartlett,

Samstag, 29. November 2003, 04:25 you wrote:

AB> smbfs in the kernel cannot support the large files.  smbmount in Samba
AB> 3.0 has the patches required to support the large file negotiation
AB> (that's the lfs option).

Ok, I see.

>> - I read about several patches and stuff, but that was all for older
>>   kernels. Basically I would be happy if it works with kernel 2.4.x.
>>   Could someone point me to the patches?
>> 
>> I know that this topic ain´t new ...

AB> If you cannot use smbclient (really, it is easier!), and you want to
AB> patch your kernel, then patch it with the CIFS VFS:

AB> http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html

AB> However, in your case, you don't even need to go this far - with the 2.6
AB> kernel, CIFS is standard!  Just select it just like you have smbfs and
AB> NFS.

Good for me. I will try that.

The reason why I can´t use smbclient is that it seems to NOT support
multiple excludes as needed in backups.

I have posted on that topic some weeks ago (14.Nov.03), and I haven´t
received any positive answers that told me how to make multiple
excludes work with smbclient.

Look at what I wrote then:

> smbclient can exclude stuff via the "-X" option.
> 
> Jon LaBadie and I have tried various approaches to exclude multiple
> items which may be contained in some kind of exclude-list (similar to
> the exclude file amanda uses for gnutar-backups). Jon has written a
> small smbclient-wrapper to feed the multiple options to smbclient, but
> it doesn't work out so far.
> 
> We found that multiple includes are supported by the "-I" option, but
> it seems that there is only supported ONE exclude by the "-X" option.
> 
> It is always the first item given that is excluded.
> 
> Also we could not exactly figure out how all this relates to using "-r".
> 
> So the questions are:
> 
> - Can we exclude multiple items from being processed by smbclient via
> "-X"? Or somehow else?
> 
> - If yes, could someone point us to the right syntax?
> 
> - How to understand the "-r" option? Does "HAVE_REGEX_H" to be
> compiled into client.c/clitar.c to support regexes? The behavior of
> "-r" does not change the way we expected from reading the manuals.




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best regards,
Stefan G. Weichinger
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