On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, John R. Jackson wrote:
> I don't think this would be the problem. LFS would only come into play
> if the file went to disk. The only way it would go to disk is in the
> holding disk, and you can set the chunksize in amanda.conf for that.
> Also, Amanda would have whined mightily if you hit this limit.
Right. I figured as much. The Samba users mailing list suggests your
assessment below is more correct.
> I think the problem is that Samba (or SMB or whatever) cannot do the
> large files itself, regardless of OS. I seem to recall other people
> having trouble with this, but may be mistaken.
results from dd'ing from smbclient (file in question is 2-22-01-all.bkf):
--start--
22:00:07 - prefect:/tmp/backup $ smbclient //wiley/home -W wiley -U backup
-E -d0 -Tqc - backups/2-22-01-all.bkf | dd bs=1k | tar tvf -
Password:
-rw-r--r-- 0/0 7956623360 2001-02-23 01:43:47 ./backups/2-22-01-all.bkf
tar: dumped 1 files and directories
Total bytes written: 3661656576
3575900+0 records in
3575900+0 records out
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
--end--
Whoops. Looks like samba sees about 8gb of the 11.1gb in the listing. dd
gets about 3.5gb, and tar doesn't like it at all.
Thoughts? Looks like samba is the culprit.
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