[Samba] Questions about file system support in Samba

[Hibbard Smith]

Thank you for this.  I have a couple questions.  I hope you don't mind.

Do you access the shares with smbclient and Windows XP Pro(SP2)?
What version is your kernel (mines 2.6.14 or 2.6.11) and samba (I've tried
3.0.14 and 3.0.21b)?

Smitty
Hibbard T. Smith, JR
smitty at essnjay.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: andy liebman [mailto:andyliebman at aol.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 11:02 AM
> To: smitty at essnjay.com
> Cc: 'Craig White'; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Questions about file system support in Samba
> 
> smitty at essnjay.com wrote:
> > I tried to access these shares from Windows XP Pro SP2 and got identical
> > results.  Ext3 filesystems smaller than 2 GB work fine.  Anything bigger
> > than 2 GB and xfs filesystems of any size fails.
> >
> > I guess I'm going to have to resort to reading code, posting on bugzilla
> as
> > a bug and maybe switching to a Windows based server.  I really need to
> get
> > this system up and doing its intended job.
> >
> > I'd really like to hear from someone that they are actually exporting
> ext3
> > filesystems larger than 2 GB and xfs filesystems and it's working.  If
> > they're doing so with the Fedora core 4 release, that would definitely
> point
> > to something strange here.
> >
> > Smitty
> > Hibbard T. Smith, JR
> > smitty at essnjay.com
> >
> >
> >
> Samba works fine with xfs. I have xfs volumes up to 12 TB on a Mandriva
> system and export Samba shares on that volume without issue.
> 
> Andy