[Samba] 2 terabyte filesystem limitation on linux client

David Smithson david at customfilmeffects.com
Fri May 14 18:04:51 GMT 2004


Thanks for the reply Buchan.  I'll try cifs instead of smbfs.

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 07:28, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> | Hi all.
> |
> | I have recently introduced two 5.5TB XFS filesystems to our storage
> | backend.  I export the filesystem via samba 3.0.3 on Fedora core 2.
> | Linux clients that mount the share show only 2TB available.  Windows
> | clients show the full capacity.  Before I put these filesystems into
> | production I'd like to find out if the reported filesystem size is going
> | to cause a problem.  Is SMB actually limited to 2TB?  If so, why do
> | Windows clients see the full capacity?  Is this a limitation of the
> | samba client software on the linux side?
> 
> Well, only if you are using samba client software (ie smbclient, but
> *not* smbmount or mount.cifs).
> 
> Are you smbmount'ing the share? If so, this may be a limitation in the
> smbfs filesystem driver in the kernel. You may want to try using the
> cifs driver (mounting with mount.cifs which is part of samba), which is
> available in the 2.4 kernels of some distros (ie Mandrake 9.2 and
> later), and 2.6 kernels for others.
> 
> Regards,
> Buchan
> 
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> Buchan Milne                      Senior Support Technician
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