On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Michael B. Allen wrote: > On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 21:26:16 -0500 > "John E. Malmberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael B. Allen wrote: > > > Richard Sharpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>Just reporting that the large file offset code in smbclient and libsmb now > > >>seems to work. > > >> > > >>I have been chasing a weird problem with 20+ second delays in completing > > >>writes at times, and have got to 130 GB in a file. Heading towards 350GB > > >>and later 1TB. > > > > > > Wouldn't anything after 4GB be redundant? > > > > No. Strange effects can happen at many different file sizes. If you do > > not test it, you do not know that it works. > > Can you give me a specific example? I've written a client and I never > tested it past 5-6GB. You have me worried now :-/
Well, I would expect problems at 64GB, etc, and 1TB or so. In my case, until I have access to a multi-shelf setup, I won't be able to test much beyond 1TB. But the testing has already paid dividends in turning up these weird delays for some writes. However, that is a file system issue. Regards ----- Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, sharpe[at]ethereal.com, http://www.richardsharpe.com
