Hi, I've looked though the archives but i've only found stuff on smbfs. What is the deal with the 2GB limit. I have a NT box do a backup though windows backup to a samba share (samba 2.2.5 on SUSE 7.1 kernel 2.4.18). When it gets to 2GB it stops and won't go any further. Is this a problem with samba, windows or the kernel??. Cheers -------------- Kristyan Osborne - IT Technicain Longhill High School 01273 391672
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Kristyan Osborne wrote:> Hi, > > I've looked though the archives but i've only found stuff on smbfs. > > What is the deal with the 2GB limit. I have a NT box do a backup though windows backup to a samba share (samba 2.2.5 on SUSE 7.1 kernel 2.4.18). When it gets to 2GB it stops and won't go any further. > > Is this a problem with samba, windows or the kernel??.No, its the Linux maximum file size limit. In fact, 2 GB is the limit for most Unices. cheers, Andy
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Kristyan Osborne wrote:> Hi, > > I've looked though the archives but i've only found stuff on smbfs.> What is the deal with the 2GB limit. I have a NT box do a backup though > windows backup to a samba share (samba 2.2.5 on SUSE 7.1 kernel 2.4.18). > When it gets to 2GB it stops and won't go any further.The kernel filesystem used on the backup server must support large files (most local linux filesystems do). You can test this on the server using dd if=/dev/zero or something. Your glibc must support large files. 2.2.something does that ok. Your samba must be compiled so that it supports large files (it should, but ...). Not really sure how to detect this from a samba binary. The backup program on the NT box must support creating files larger than 2G. It probably does. NTFS is not the problem, any fat usage might be. /Urban