[Samba] Re: Large file support

[Joseph Loo]

Could you be running into the file limit descriptor limit?

Try checking out your file system descriptor limits. Do a cat 
/proc/sys/fs/file-nr. You should get three numbers aaa bbb ccc where
aaa is the system reserved
bbb is the current number of file descriptors
ccc is the file descriptor limit.

There is a file system parameter you can adjust to make it permanent. It 
just escapes me for the moment/

Vytas Janusauskas wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> To allow the support of file larger then 2 gigs the following  patches 
> were applied the system mentioned below.
>
> CPU: Pentium Pro
> Memory: 64 Megs
> Kernel version: tried with 2.4.18 and 2.4.20, same errors
> Distribution Debian Woody (aka 3.0)
> Samba version: 2.2.3a-12
> Smbfs patch version: 2.4.18 had patches applied from here :
> http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/index.html
> 2.4.20 had patches (modified from above) from here:
> http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~errror/smbfs-lfs.html
>
> When coping files even files smaller then 2 gigs in size I get the 
> following error message.
>
> cp: cannot stat `/dosworld/pent14/c/Program Files/Trend PC-cillin
>  6.0/WHATSNEW.TXT': Too many open files in system
>
> Tar of a SMB mounted directory also yield the following error message 
> sometimes.
>
> smb_lookup : find foo.tif failed, error = -23
> tar: foo.tif : cannot open; too many open files in system.  Checking 
> the file handles available showed that I am not even close to using 
> them up.
>
> The following message occasionally appears on the server console, 
> though I do not know if it is related with the above problem
>
> smb_instantiate: foo.tif failed, error -23, closing 186
>
> When I roll back the changes and tested with the same files none of 
> the above errors occur.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on what I may be doing wrong?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Vytas
>
>
>
> Vytas Janusauskas
> Dendron Resource Surveys Inc.
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> Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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>


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Joseph Loo
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