Max file sizes

Urban Widmark
Sun, 20 Jan 2002 08:01:01 -0000

On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Don Harvie wrote:

> The tar file is truncated at exactly 1 byte less than 2GB. (This also
> occurs when I use gzip to compress the tar file as well). There appear
> to be no error messages generated anywhere by tar, samba logs, syslog or
> the NT event log.

smbfs does not support files >2G. Experimental patches for a 2.4 kernel
and samba 2.2.2 with some basic instructions are available here:
	http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/lfs.html

/Urban