Topic: Samba file size limit?

[Bakody]

When I attempt to copy a 3.8gb file to the esmith server, about halfway through the copy I get an "access denied" error.

Any thoughts on this?  I should not that I have upgraded to the 2.2.x SAMBA and am not using the SAMBA that is included with e-smith 5.0.

Just curious if anyone else has encounted errors copying large files to their server.

[Michael Doerner]

I suspect this to be more of a limitation of the ext2 filesystem (rather than Samba) which has by standard a maximum of 2GB size for a single file.
Apparently the Redhat kernel version that is used for SME 5.0 is patched to support up to 8GB files but I have seen a problem here where I believe that the 2GB limitation is still active.

Regards,
Michael Doerner

[David Helmuth]

I too just ran in to the 2Gig Limit.  I was trying to run a backup of a workstation to an Ibay with the Windows backup client.  Right about 2 gig, Windows backup told me it was out of space.  (df -h on the server reports 12 G available)

Anyone know how to make sure the 2 Gig size limit has been overcome in this kernel.

Thanks!!!

[Charlie Brady]

Michael Doerner wrote:

> Apparently the Redhat kernel version that is used for SME 5.0
> is patched to support up to 8GB files but I have seen a
> problem here where I believe that the 2GB limitation is still
> active.

Indeed, I was mistaken. The RedHat kernel source RPM does contain the large file size patches, but they are not applied to the i686/i586/i386 kernels. Only the "enterprise" kernel has the large file size patches applied.

Regards

Charlie