What is max file size at Samba ?

[Matti Aarnio]

Andrew Tridgell <tridge at samba.org> wrote:
> Matti,

  Good morning, afternoon in fact,

> SMB file offsets are unsigned and can thus go to 2^32-1. Read/write
> operations are not relative to a current file pointer but are instead
> always relative to the start of the file. That's why a sign bit is not
> needed. 
> 
> File offsets can also be 64-bits if the client and server negotiate
> "large file support". Samba 2.0 supports 64-bit file offsets on some
> OSes (IRIX, Solaris and a few others). We use autoconf to detect if
> 64-bit file offsets are available.

  You mean:  If the LFS machinery exists ?
Even without my LFS things, the Linux/Alpha and Linux/SPARC64 are
capable to use large offsets.

My LFS stuff adds a few flags, and machinery to have the page cache to
support up to PAGE_SIZE * 4G files (16 T) on 32-bit platforms.
The VFS layer (aside of page cache) already handles 64-bit offsets,
although most filesystem codes in Linux make sloppy, or no work at
detecting offsets going beyond 2G-1.

...
> The locking problem affects all file sizes, not just large files.
> 
> > I am working at Large-File-Summit stuff for Linux
> 
> is there are URL for this?

  Didn't I remember to mention it ?

	ftp://mea.tmt.tele.fi/linux/LFS/

> Cheers, Tridge

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio at sonera.fi>