LFS

Jeremy Allison jeremy at valinux.com
Fri Feb 23 17:28:29 GMT 2001


David Embury wrote:
> 
> Does the latest stable version of samba support large files > 1 TB?  I would
> like to use a linux server for backing up large data base files.  I have
> 2.0.7 installed on Redhat 7.0 with the 2.4.2 Kernel, and samba does not
> handle any files over 4GB.  If you have any sugestions, please let me know.
> The new Kernel supports files up to 2 TB on the ext2 file system.

2.0.7 does support 64 bit files on systems that support it.
The rpm shipped with RedHat won't have been compiled that
way I suspect.

Try recompiling from source.

Jeremy.

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