[Samba] 2gig limit

[Mark Cooke]

Hi Frank,

smbfs has a 2GB limitation.  Look at using 'cifs' as a replacement.

Cheers,

Mark

On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 16:57, frank jenkins wrote:
> I'm running into a 2gig file limit when copying files from a linux machine 
> running smbmount 3.0.2a-Debian and kernel 2.4.23 connecting to another 
> debian machine running smbd 3.0.2a-Debian with the stock 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel 
> that comes with debian stable (though the machine has been upgraded to sid).
> 
> If I run this on the client side
> 
> dd if=/dev/zero of=test.junk bs=1k
> 
> it eventually fails at the 2gig mark. If I run it on the server side, while 
> running 'ls -l' on the client side, the file size is reported correctly up 
> to 2 gigs. Ex:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 jenkins jenkins 1988903936 Mar 15 19:57 test.junk
> 
> As the 'dd' on the server side passes 2gigs, the filesize reported by 'ls 
> -l' on the client side jumps up a tad:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 jenkins jenkins 18446744071976267776 Mar 15 20:00 test.junk
> 
> Any idea what is causing this? I've tried searching around on google, and it 
> seems this was a problem back in 2000-2002, but was fixed in one of the 2.* 
> versions, so I'm not sure why I'm having this problem.
> 
> Thanks, Frank
> 
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Mark Cooke <mpc at star.sr.bham.ac.uk>
University Of Birmingham