samba - Feb 2002 - LFS Stuff

Hi,

   The LFS page hosted on suse's servers states that smbfs has probs with 
large files and it seems to be a bit out-of-date.

   http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

   I can't correct him with authority, but maybe one of the team should.


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Martyn Ranyard

I am not a member of the samba team,
and anything that I say may not be as
accurate as a response from one of the
team.  I reply to save those more
qualified time, which can more usefully
be spent developing SAMBA further.

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Martyn Ranyard wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    The LFS page hosted on suse's servers states that smbfs has probs
with
> large files and it seems to be a bit out-of-date.
> 
>    http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html
The smbfs entry is kind of strange and it talks a lot about what samba
2.0.7 does which is mostly irrelevant for smbfs.

The listed 2G smbfs limit is correct though.

I'd suggest changing it to:
"Older protocols are limited to 4 GiB - 1. SMB extensions allow 64 bit
 filesystems. Linux smbfs implementation is currently limited to 2 GiB -
1."

4G since the old SMBread is unsigned, which becomes 2G since smbfs stores
the size in a signed field.

Possibly with something on how NT supports 64bit and that Samba does if
the underlying components does (OS, libc). Not sure however if that should
be turned into a SMB server capability list (AS/400 anyone?).

/Urban