I have noticed recently that Windows XP seems to stop writing into Linux/Samba shares once there is 2 TB of data in the share. Windows Explorer is happy to report that a share has 4.8 or 8 or 10 TB of space available, but Windows seems to cease writing into the share once there are 2 TB in it. Is this a known limitation of a) Windows or b) Samba or c) both? It certainly isn't a limitation of the filesystem I'm using. Andy Liebman
On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 09:50:11PM -0500, andy liebman wrote:> I have noticed recently that Windows XP seems to stop writing into > Linux/Samba shares once there is 2 TB of data in the share. Windows > Explorer is happy to report that a share has 4.8 or 8 or 10 TB of space > available, but Windows seems to cease writing into the share once there > are 2 TB in it. > > Is this a known limitation of a) Windows or b) Samba or c) both? It > certainly isn't a limitation of the filesystem I'm using.Good question ! What does 2TB look like as a hex number ? I don't think it's a Samba problem, we don't care how much data is on a filesystem until we get a "disk full" error :-). Jeremy.
hi, i?m sorry, but i cannot ack to this report. we have for example one server with 3,12TB (each share shows this space, no quotas set)and win xp (pro) clients are fine with this (btw: MAC OSX had problems with shares >2TB -> smb.conf has a parameter for virtually limiting the disk size) greez andy liebman wrote:> I have noticed recently that Windows XP seems to stop writing into > Linux/Samba shares once there is 2 TB of data in the share. Windows > Explorer is happy to report that a share has 4.8 or 8 or 10 TB of space > available, but Windows seems to cease writing into the share once there > are 2 TB in it. > > Is this a known limitation of a) Windows or b) Samba or c) both? It > certainly isn't a limitation of the filesystem I'm using. > > Andy Liebman