> -----Original Message----- > From: David R. Bergstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 9:38 PM > To: ReiserFS List > Subject: RE: [reiserfs-list] LFS and Large File Support for > reiserfs 3.6 (kernel 2.4.19) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Oleg Drokin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Saturday, September 07, 2002 12:27 PM > > To: David R. Bergstein > > Cc: ReiserFS List > > Subject: Re: [reiserfs-list] LFS and Large File Support for > > reiserfs 3.6 (kernel 2.4.19) > > > > > > Hello! > > > > On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 12:09:21PM -0400, David R. Bergstein wrote: > > > > > I seem to have hit a file size limit on my system where files > > exceed 4GB in > > > size. I do have an LFS capable glibc (glibc-2.2.4-10.1mdk) on > > Mandrake 8.1, > > > > 4Gb? Hm, strange number, usually LFS problems manifest themselves at > > 2Gb size. > > > > > running stock kernel 2.4.19, w/o additional patches applied. > > This prevents > > > me from backing up a large directory of video files over the > > network, since > > > the file truncates itself after 4GB is exceeded. Any hints to > > solve this > > > > What tool do you use, have you tried something other? > > > > Bye, > > Oleg > > > > Hi Oleg, > > I was running a Win2k ntbackup job over the network via samba. I remember > fixing this issue quite some time ago by building samba locally, but it > appears that the version of samba may be at fault > (samba-2.2.2-3.2mdk, from > Mandrake Update). I will check to see if there is any separate issues by > running a dd command to create a large dummy file in the meantime. > > - David > > >
[dbergst@zeus tmp]$ 8192+0 records in 8192+0 records out [1]+ Done dd if=/dev/zero of=large_file_test bs=1024k count 8192 [dbergst@zeus tmp]$ ls -alh total 8.1G drwxr-xr-x 2 dbergst dbergst 80 Sep 7 22:02 ./ drwx------ 31 dbergst dbergst 1.7k Sep 7 11:25 ../ -rw-rw-r-- 1 dbergst dbergst 8.0G Sep 7 22:29 large_file_test [dbergst@zeus tmp]$ Well, that worked fine. At this point I consider this to be a samba issue and will do a local build of the latest release (2.2.5). David R. Bergstein Systems Engineer and Blues Musician - http://mywebpages.comcast.net/dbergstein/ Heart of Blue - bookings on-line at http://www.heartofblue.com OpenPGP Public Key 0xE1F138CA - For info see http://www.gnupg.org Key fingerprint = C86E CA2A 4171 AC73 91D7 3DCE 8832 D764 E1F1 38CA
