Well, the large file offset stuff in smbclient seems to work

[Christopher R. Hertel]

Richard,

Any chance you can do some jCIFS testing for us?

Chris -)-----

On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 10:01:48PM -0500, Michael B. Allen wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:26:16 -0500
> "John E. Malmberg" <wb8tyw at qsl.net> wrote:
> 
> > Michael B. Allen wrote:
> > > Richard Sharpe <rsharpe at richardsharpe.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > >>Just reporting that the large file offset code in smbclient and libsmb now 
> > >>seems to work. 
> > >>
> > >>I have been chasing a weird problem with 20+ second delays in completing 
> > >>writes at times, and have got to 130 GB in a file. Heading towards 350GB 
> > >>and later 1TB.
> > > 
> > > Wouldn't anything after 4GB be redundant?
> > 
> > No.  Strange effects can happen at many different file sizes.  If you do 
> > not test it, you do not know that it works.
> 
> Can you give me a specific example? I've written a client and I never
> tested it past 5-6GB. You have me worried now :-/
> 
> Mike
> 
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