On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:15, Mark Chou wrote: > I've got a few questions, more or less related to samba 2GB file size > limit and MDK 9.1. > > I'm using Mandrake 9.1 as a base for mythtv, a linux personal video > recorder (a la tivo). As such, I routinely need to access video files > greater than 2GB on my Windows shares (as well as linux machines). > > 1. Does the stock MDK 9.1 kernel & smbmount support file sizes greater > than 2GB? If so, how is it enabled? If the stock MDK9.1 doesn't > support smb file sizes >2GB, where can I get a precompiled kernel and > smbmount that does support >2GB? > > 2. There is a kernel patch and smbmount patch (for >2GB file size > support) available at http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~errror/smbfs-lfs.html > I applied the (kernel) patches successfully; there are changes to files > in linux/fs/smbfs/*.c and linux/include/smb*.h in the kernel source > tree. Is it possible to just recompile smbfs.o w/o recompiling the > (stock) kernel, and have it insmod successfully without the dreaded > "unresolved symbols" message? > > I tried this as suggested in the "compile just a module" kernel compile > HOWTO, but despite pointing to the correct modversions.h and the correct > kernel source tree, I still get the unresolved symbols against the MDK > 9.1 stock kernel, getting "unresolved symbols" for smbfs.o. What's the > exact procedule for recompiling just the smbfs.o module so it will just > work with the stock kernel? FWIW, here's what I did: > - change Makefile as suggested by kernel (comple module only) howto, > changing SUBDIR=fs/smb, and making sure EXTRAVERSION=-0.13mdk > - make clean > - make mrproper
cp /boot/config-xxx .config (replace xxx by your kernel version number) > - make oldconfig > - make dep > - (NOTE: I'm *not* doing make bzImage here since I'm trying to avoid > recompling the whole kernel) > - make modules > - make modules_install > - mv original /lib/modules/2.4.21-0.13mdk/kernel/fs/smbfs/smbfs.o.gz > elsewhere > - reboot, and kernel comes up with "unresolved symbols" for smbfs.o > > Also, FWIW, recompiling the whole kernel works succesfully w/o problems. > > Thanks, > Mark > > > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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