[Samba] random file size % 2 Gigabytes

[Brian Ford]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 01:54:18PM -0600, Brian Ford wrote:
> > Running samba-3.0.20b-3.4 on a fully patched Suse Linux Enterprise Server
> > 9:
> >
> > $ uname -a
> > Linux server 2.6.5-7.244-smp #1 SMP Mon Dec 12 18:32:25 UTC 2005 x86_64
> > x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> > with a fully patched Windows XP Pro client, we occasionally see the size
> > for large files (~350 Gigabytes in this case) reported by Windows explorer
> > to be the real size modulo 2 Gigabytes.  When the size is reported
> > incorrectly, accessing data at the end of the file is obviously not
> > possible.  At other random times, the size is reported correctly and file
> > access is also normal.
>
> Can you reproduce this ?

Yes, readily.

> Can you get either a debug level 10 log of it happening or an ethereal
> trace ?

I think I've got both with the bug present, and just the Ethereal with
expected behavior.

> If so please log a bug at bugzilla.samba.org.

Filed as bug 3553.

> Thanks,

No, thank you.

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Brian Ford
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