[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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