[Samba] files over 2 GB in size?

James Courtier-Dutton James at superbug.demon.co.uk
Mon Nov 24 19:26:37 GMT 2003


Adam Williams wrote:
> Is there a way in samba to create files greater then 2GB in size?  I'm 
> tarring some stuff to a samba share (from one linux server to another, 
> share mounted using smbmount) and I get an error "File size limit 
> exceeded" and the size of the file is 2147483647 bytes.  Is there anyway 
> to create files larger then 2GB on a samba mounted share?  If so, how?
> 
> 
smbmount or mount -t smbfs  do not support large files. I.e. > 2Gb files.

I suggest that this is a bug in the linux kernel, and should be fixed there.

Cheers
James





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