[Samba] LFS Stuff

[Andreas Jaeger]

Urban Widmark <urban at teststation.com> writes:

> On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Martyn Ranyard wrote:
>
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>    The LFS page hosted on suse's servers states that smbfs has probs with 
>> large files and it seems to be a bit out-of-date.
>> 
>>    http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html
>
> The smbfs entry is kind of strange and it talks a lot about what samba
> 2.0.7 does which is mostly irrelevant for smbfs.
>
> The listed 2G smbfs limit is correct though.
>
> I'd suggest changing it to:
> "Older protocols are limited to 4 GiB - 1. SMB extensions allow 64 bit
>  filesystems. Linux smbfs implementation is currently limited to 2 GiB - 1."

I've added this now. Thanks.


> 4G since the old SMBread is unsigned, which becomes 2G since smbfs stores
> the size in a signed field.
>
> Possibly with something on how NT supports 64bit and that Samba does if
> the underlying components does (OS, libc). Not sure however if that should
> be turned into a SMB server capability list (AS/400 anyone?).

feel free to send further enhancements to the page, I'll try to add
them - hopefully in more timely fashion.

thanks,
Andreas
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