Files bigger than 4 GB

[Jeremy Allison]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:39:05AM +0000, Romeril, Alan wrote:

> Doing a "get" on the file is another problem as the "get" doesn`t
> terminate (well it was still going at a local file size of 6 1/2 GB
> before I killed it).

smbclient hasn't yet been fixed for >2gb files. On the list of things
to do...

> As for the smbd one...
> Using the Windows client showed the other issue, the copy starts and the
> GUI indicates 50 seconds or so to go, and the progress bar zooms along
> until 99% then sits while the rest of the file (now below 4 GB) is being
> copied while displaying ludicrous remaining times for the copy ( e.g
> 600000 minutes).  But the copy does finish, and the file looks okay.
> 
> This is on Sun Solaris 8, and using the gcc 2.95.2 compiler.

Interesting, probably allocation return size.... Exactly which Windows
client - I'd like to try and reproduce this.

Jeremy.