[Samba] 2GB limit

Sebastian Ries Sebastian.Ries at dtnet.de
Thu Nov 15 13:03:54 GMT 2007


Am Donnerstag, den 15.11.2007, 07:16 -0500 schrieb Adam Tauno Williams:
> > I checked the disk format.  It is UFS2.  
> 
> ?
> 
> > Could you help me to fix this? I don't know where else I can check.
> > Does any body had similar problem like this with current version 3.26? 
> 
> There is no such limit in Samba;  it i probably a limit in the
> underlying filesystem.  We create gargantuan (>2Gb) files via Samba all
> the time, but we use LINUX ext3/xfs servers.
It's also a limit of the transport filesystem.

Try to map the remote filsystem using cifs instead of smb.

smb has the limit of 2GB

Regards
Sebastian Ries

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