I apologize if this is out of line or the incorrect venue to make my request. I have spent months, off and on, attempting to download a large iso file through my Linux desktop to my Linux-based server. It was frustrating and damn near impossible. I kept suffering failures when the file size hit 2Gig. I asked around in several newsgroups, I believe this mailing list, and some web forums to no avail. I finally sorted the matter out and was able to receive my iso image. The holdup was that SAMBA involves a 2 Gigabyte file size limit that no one ever mentioned. I finally stumbled onto the details and by simply adding "lfs" near the end of my fstab mount statements for my server's SAMBA shares. Once I had that piece of information, it took about 10 minutes to fix the statements and remount the shares. I understand there is also a way to mount SAMBA shares as cifs shares which does not appear to be as feature rich, but does overcome the 2Gb file size limit. We are operating in a day and age of broadband Internet service, DVD media, and downloadable software (like Linux distribution iso for example), that easily exceed 2Gb. I would like to request that the "lfs" command option and perhaps even the "cifs" option be better documented in the manpage. This assuming the archaic 2 Gb limit can not be overcome in subsequent versions of SAMBA. Again, I apologize if this issue has already been dealt with. Thank you. -- Mark E. Adams http://adamslan.shyper.com Random Musing: Tom's hungry, time to eat lunch.
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 01:26:00PM -0600, Mark Adams wrote:> I apologize if this is out of line or the incorrect venue to make my > request.Neither, but as you haven't bothered to tell us what version of Samba, what version of Linux, or what client software you were using I don't think we can be blamed for not helping you :-) :-). Jeremy.
I apologize if this is out of line or the incorrect venue to make my request. I have spent months, off and on, attempting to download a large iso file through my Linux desktop to my Linux-based server. It was frustrating and damn near impossible. I kept suffering failures when the file size hit 2Gig. I asked around in several newsgroups, I believe this mailing list, and some web forums to no avail. I finally sorted the matter out and was able to receive my iso image. The holdup was that SAMBA involves a 2 Gigabyte file size limit that no one ever mentioned. I finally stumbled onto the details and by simply adding "lfs" near the end of my fstab mount statements for my server's SAMBA shares. Once I had that piece of information, it took about 10 minutes to fix the statements and remount the shares. I understand there is also a way to mount SAMBA shares as cifs shares which does not appear to be as feature rich, but does overcome the 2Gb file size limit. We are operating in a day and age of broadband Internet service, DVD media, and downloadable software (like Linux distribution iso for example), that easily exceed 2Gb. I would like to request that the "lfs" command option and perhaps even the "cifs" option be better documented in the manpage. This assuming the archaic 2 Gb limit can not be overcome in subsequent versions of SAMBA. Thank you. -- Mark E. Adams http://adamslan.shyper.com Random Musing: Tom's hungry, time to eat lunch.