samba - Dec 2001 - Filesize problem with smbfs

Hi everyone,
(cc Philippine Linux Users' Group)

First off I'm not a member of the mailing list so it would be really great
if I could be cc'd all replies. TIA. :)

I am experiencing a problem with Samba/Linux to Samba/Linux smbfs mounts.
I am using Samba 2.2.2 on both client and server. The server's filesystem
is XFS, kernel is 2.4.16-xfs.

I have a 3.2GB (3340095767 bytes as reported by stat and ls) tar.bz2 file
in a share. Using smbclient the file is indeed 3340095767 bytes large.

On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Federico Sevilla III wrote:
> I have a 3.2GB (3340095767 bytes as reported by stat and ls) tar.bz2 file
> in a share. Using smbclient the file is indeed 3340095767 bytes large.
> >From a Windows workstation (Windows 95/98/NT), it is reported to be
3.2GB,
> too.
smbfs doesn't handle files larger than 2GB.

You can try this:
    http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/lfs.html

Note that it is experimental (so I want to know if it works or not)

> However, when I mount the share via smbfs (on a Linux box, of course), the
> same file is 2.0T as reported by du (ie: du -csh), 18446744072754680087
smbfs reverse-compression algorithm at work ...

> I will find time when the system is not too loaded to compare the two
> files (cmp and diff bail out because of the filesizes), probably using
> md5sum. I can't do this right now because it's hogging the system
and
> taking forever.
You will find that the files differ. smbfs will wrap at 2G and start
reading the file on the server from block 0 again.

/Urban