On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 12:33:45AM +0000, Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > Both the userspace and kernel pieces of smbfs must support LFS in order > > for you to be able to access files > 2GB. As of Linux 2.4.19 and Samba > > 3.0alpha20, neither has support for LFS by default: patches exist for > > both, but they have not been included in official releases of either > > the kernel or Samba.
> > I'm cc:ing the upstream samba-technical mailing list on my reply, > > because I believe that this is an increasingly important requirement for > > the smbfs userbase, and that the Samba Team should seriously consider > > making LFS support in smbfs a goal for the Samba 3.0 release. > The 'Samba Team' doesn't maintain smbfs, and without those changes a patch > to smbmount doesn't make to much sense. That said, I don't mind applying > them - but it's not been a priority. I see getting LFS support into the userspace tools as the first priority. A large number of our users compile their own kernels with assorted patches tacked on, but very few will use anything but precompiled packages for userspace tools like smbmount. Also, I did misspeak in suggesting that no Linux kernels have been released with large file support for smbfs: AIUI, this support has been integrated into the 2.5 kernel series. So there are definitely applications for an LFS-enabled smbmount today, and the number will only increase by the time Samba 3.0 is released. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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