Well, the large file offset stuff in smbclient seems to work

[John E. Malmberg]

Michael B. Allen wrote:
> Richard Sharpe <rsharpe at richardsharpe.com> wrote:
> 
>>Just reporting that the large file offset code in smbclient and libsmb now 
>>seems to work. 
>>
>>I have been chasing a weird problem with 20+ second delays in completing 
>>writes at times, and have got to 130 GB in a file. Heading towards 350GB 
>>and later 1TB.
> 
> Wouldn't anything after 4GB be redundant?

No.  Strange effects can happen at many different file sizes.  If you do 
not test it, you do not know that it works.

The weakness may not be in smbclient or libsmb though.

-John
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