[Samba] 2GB Limit

[Guy Story, KC5GOI]

I ran into this earlier this year.  It is a FAT16, FAT32 and I believe a NTFS 
limitation.

On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:55 am, andy thomas wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Kristyan Osborne wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've looked though the archives but i've only found stuff on smbfs.
> >
> > What is the deal with the 2GB limit. I have a NT box do a backup though
> > windows backup to a samba share (samba 2.2.5 on SUSE 7.1 kernel 2.4.18).
> > When it gets to 2GB it stops and won't go any further.
> >
> > Is this a problem with samba, windows or the kernel??.
>
> No, its the Linux maximum file size limit. In fact, 2 GB is the limit
> for most Unices.
>
> cheers,
>
> Andy

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