[Samba] Questions about file system support in Samba

[Stéphane Purnelle]

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Hibbard Smith a écrit :
> I'm a relative newcomer to Samba, but very experienced with computers and
> linux.  I'm attempting to build a file/backup server for a small shop.  I'm
> using Fedora core 4 and samba on a system with a 2.1 TB RAID 50 array
> formatted as 1 very large xfs partition.  I want to share directories
> (folders) within the partition with a few Windows XP-Pro SP2 systems which
> are our primary work-stations.  Currently I'm running samba-3.0.21b.  I
> started with the 3.0.14 that was released with FC4, but upgraded to the
> "latest and greatest" when I couldn't make the original work correctly. The
> kernel has also been upgraded to the Fedora released 2.6.14.1-1656-FC4-SMP.
>
> 
>
> Our business is primarily imaging and video.  A large percentage of our
> files are over 2 GB with some way over that.  Therefore, the only way this
> could be useful is with very large shared file systems.
>
> 
>
> Here are the issues and my questions:
>
> 
>
> When I try to share this large partition (2.1 TB xfs) and use smbclient to
> access it, the log records an error which states that "the share doesn't
> exist or can't be accessed The error was access denied". I've made the
share
> mode 0777 just to make sure permissions wouldn't get in the way.  If I move
> the share to an ext3 file system that's smaller than 2 GB it works
> correctly.  Any file system over 2 GB or any size xfs file system produces
> the error.  I haven't even tried to access the shares from a Windows system
> yet, I'm just using smbclient on the Fedora system.  I'm pretty sure I've
> got the config and permissions right because just changing the share to an
> ext3 file system under 2 GB works fine. 
It's maybe a bug in smbclient ?
With a windows client, have you this problem ?

what says smbclient -L ?

The user which try to acces to this share is correcly configured  ?
I suppose that the answer is YES.


>
> 
>
> So, here's my question(s): 
>
> 
>
> 1)       Does samba work with xfs file systems?
YES, My PDC/File & print server use two XFS partition.

>
> 
>
> 2)       Does samba work with large file systems (2 GB +)?
Yes
>
> 
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> 3)       If the answer to the above is yes, what might I be doing wrong?
>
> 
>
> I haven't been able to find limits documented anywhere.  However, I see a
> great deal of discussion on the web about files over 2 GB along with
> suggestions that they work fine.  This would imply that file systems of
over
> 2 GB must work okay.  I've also seen much discussion which would suggest
> that xfs works fine also.  All this discussion seems to indicate that I've
> got something wrong.  I'm just not sure what it is or how to proceed.  I
> have turned samba debugging up and the logs show that the correct
user/group
> is being used and that case is working okay. So, I'm really confused and I
> sure would appreciate any help.  I really need to get this done and I don't
> like the alternative (Windows Server 2003).
>
> 
>
> Smitty
>
> Hibbard T. Smith, JR
>
> smitty at essnjay.com
>
> 
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>


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Stéphane Purnelle <stephane.purnelle at tiscali.be>
Site Web : http://www.linuxplusvalue.be
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