[Samba] 2gb limit & weird filenames

[David Brodbeck]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: andy thomas [mailto:andy at ic.ac.uk]

> > RedHat Linux 7.0 with all current RedHat bugfixes and glibc 
> upgrades.
> > Custom-compiled 2.4.17 kernel with ext2/ext3 ACL patches.  
> On an ext2
> > partition:
> >
> > [root at bigbox /export]# dd if=/dev/zero of=test.temp bs=1k 
> count=3000000
> > 3000000+0 records in
> > 3000000+0 records out
> > [root at bigbox /export]# ls -l test.temp
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root     3072000000 Dec 10 11:06 test.temp
> >
> >
> > I think the ext2/ext3 2 gig limit is just a common misconception.
> 
> The 2 GB limit definitely applies to ext2 (certainly on Slackware 8 or
> SuSE 7.3 platforms) and I thought the same would have applied 
> to ext3 as it's an extension of ext2?

I think maybe it depends on the glibc version, or perhaps the kernel
version.  I'm using a 2.4.17 kernel and glibc 2.2.4.

If the 2 gig limit "definately applies to ext2", then how did I create the
above 3 gig file on an ext2 partition?