You sure about that? I'm pretty sure I've had >2gb files on my ext3 drives, 2.4.x kernel.
Bob On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 08:35:33 +0000 (GMT), andy thomas wrote > On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to set up a samba server for a friend who has a mac. He's running > > OSX, version 10.2. He's got some really big video editing files that are well > > in excess of 2gb. We're trying to back these up to the samba server, but it > > quits right around 2gb. That seems to be a magical number. This is with > > version 2.2.3 of Samba, and Linux-Mandrake 8.2, ext3 file system. > > > > I saw some talk on another list that this was fixed in a somewhat recent > > version, but then broken for the latest one. Comments? > > Well, the Linux ext3 filesystem itself has a maximum file size limit > of 2 GB so that isn't really a samba issue. You would need to use a filesystem > such as xfs to support file sizes greater than this. > > Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba