[Samba] smbfs size limit

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Hello, Samba-users,

please don´t beat me, but I have to ask this question here, as I
haven´t found an answer I can rely on until now.

I am working on a solution for a backup-problem and one possible
solution could be the use of smbfs/smbmount.

I am testing that now, mounting a WinXPHome(sorry, testing ...)-share
which is 20GB of size (8GB used) to my linux-box. The linux-box is a
bit more sophisticated (Kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Samba 3.0.0).

I don´t want to get into details now, just my questions:

- I am aware of a sizelimit of 2 GB or 4 GB when using smbfs.
  What is the limit exactly and where does it come from ?
  smbfs in the kernel ? smbmount ?

- I read about several patches and stuff, but that was all for older
  kernels. Basically I would be happy if it works with kernel 2.4.x.
  Could someone point me to the patches?

I know that this topic ain´t new ...

thank you for your help.
-- 
best regards,
Stefan G. Weichinger
mailto:monitor at oops.co.at