smdb warp-around after 4 GB

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Nov 5 07:18:03 GMT 2001


On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 03:57:58PM +0100, Andreas Karrer wrote:
> 
> Questions :
>   o Is smbd supposed to be large-file-proof, e.g. capable of handling files
>     larger than 4 GB?
>       *  On Solaris 8?
>       *  On Tru64 Unix?
>       *  On RedHat 7.1 / Kernel 2.4.2 / ext2?

Yes, on all these I believe.

>   o Is smbclient supposed to be large-file-proof? (I see a few minor
>     problems in the source; the variables get_total_size,
>     put_total_size, nread in client/client.c should be declared
>     as off_t.
> 
>   o Am I missing something really obvious, such as a smb.conf file option?

Only smbd the server is 64 bit clean. This work has not yet been done for smbclient.
It works with a Win32 client.

	Jeremy.




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