[Samba] Re: Raidzone, reiserfs, huge files

[Dragan Krnic]

| I posted about 2 weeks ago about problems we were 
| having copying files larger than about 17.6GB from 
| NT to Samba 2.2.8a-1 on a Raidzone 1.3TB system.  
......
| One of the most recent and enlightening things we 
| tried was to hang a spare SCSI drive on an external 
| connector on the RZ box, put an ext2 filesystem 
| on it, and add a share for it in the smb.conf.  A 
| 32GB file copies perfectly to this share, obviously 
| using the same Samba setup and network interface, 
| which made me suspect an issue with the RZ disk 
| array.

What's an RZ Box? Is it a RAID box including a Linux 
box with samba software or a RAID box alone attached to
a Linux box of your own running 2.2.8a-1?

I've never had any problems with reiserfs 3.6 and
large files ever since I started using samba 2.2.6.
The current version is 2.2.8a-3 and it still works.
My clients are all Win2K but that should be irrelevant.

Do some logging to see what happens when a large copy
fails.

| Should we try ext3, and if so, are there any 
| possible complications we should be aware of?

Why don't you try it out. It'll probably fail too.



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