[Samba] Version 2.2.6 and above are not able to store big files over 2GB

[Jim Morris]

On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 10:09  AM, Klaus Ethgen wrote:

> when I store a file biger than 2GB to a samba server version 2.2.5
> everythink works fine. But when I do that with a server version 2.2.6 
> or
> 2.2.7 the saving fails on the 2GB limit. The problem can be seen with
> windowsclients or with smbclient (any version > 2.2.5).
>
> I did some debuging and find that the lseek64 fails. But I didn't find 
> the
> reason.

Is this on the same exact server, and on the same server filesystem?  I 
ask, because on Linux at least, some of the native filesystem types 
still have a 2GB file size limit.  My recent experience is that ext2 
and ext3 still have a 2GB filesize limit by default.  On the other 
hand, ReiserFS does not, since version 3.5.x.

Just something to consider..... it may be a Samba bug, but if the 
lseek64() fails, it would seem to lie in the filesystem....


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Jim Morris (Jim at Morris-World.com)