On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 03:38, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:> Hello, Samba-users,
>
> please don?t beat me, but I have to ask this question here, as I
> haven?t found an answer I can rely on until now.
>
> I am working on a solution for a backup-problem and one possible
> solution could be the use of smbfs/smbmount.
>
> I am testing that now, mounting a WinXPHome(sorry, testing ...)-share
> which is 20GB of size (8GB used) to my linux-box. The linux-box is a
> bit more sophisticated (Kernel 2.6.0-test11 - Samba 3.0.0).
>
> I don?t want to get into details now, just my questions:
>
> - I am aware of a sizelimit of 2 GB or 4 GB when using smbfs.
> What is the limit exactly and where does it come from ?
> smbfs in the kernel ? smbmount ?
smbfs in the kernel cannot support the large files. smbmount in Samba
3.0 has the patches required to support the large file negotiation
(that's the lfs option).
> - I read about several patches and stuff, but that was all for older
> kernels. Basically I would be happy if it works with kernel 2.4.x.
> Could someone point me to the patches?
>
> I know that this topic ain?t new ...
If you cannot use smbclient (really, it is easier!), and you want to
patch your kernel, then patch it with the CIFS VFS:
http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html
However, in your case, you don't even need to go this far - with the 2.6
kernel, CIFS is standard! Just select it just like you have smbfs and
NFS.
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team abartlet@samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College abartlet@hawkerc.net
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