samba - Dec 2002 - Large File support not quiet working..

Hey all, I'd like some hints on getting LFS properly working. I've got a
samba server sharing a directory, and I've got a samba client (both client
and server are linux, slackware 7.1 and 8.1) that's mounting the
directory.

this is with samba 2.2.7a.

what happens is when I do an LS on the client in the mounted directory
with large files in it, I see strange numbers. I've created test files
both around 3 gigs each in size, an "ls -aFlh" displays the file sizes
as
being "16E", a plain ls -aFl lists them as being:
18446744072380445270 and
18446744072635809792

obviously a lot larger than 3G.

when I configured the samba packages, I used "--with-libsmbclient
--with-ssl --with-smbmount --prefix=/usr"

I verified that "LFS support" in the configure output messages was
detected as "yes"

any ideas?

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On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, CHS wrote:
> when I configured the samba packages, I used "--with-libsmbclient
> --with-ssl --with-smbmount --prefix=/usr"
> 
> I verified that "LFS support" in the configure output messages
was
> detected as "yes"
> 
> any ideas?
http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/index.html

You need to patch the kernel to get smbfs to support LFS. The filesystem
code has very little to do with samba (you do need to apply a tiny
smbmount patch too).

/Urban