On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:02:17PM -0700, k n wrote: > I'm running RH9 with kernel 2.4.20 and Samba 2.2.8a. > > > I can copy files larger than 2GB from Windows to Linux > and vice versa through Samba. > > However, when I copy >2GB files from one Linux machine > to another (using smbmount to mount) I get "File size > limit exceeded" when 2GB is reached. > > It looks like the problem is with smbmount. > > Is there a 2GB file size limit with smbmount? > > If the problem is with smbmount, is there a patch or > workaround?
This question comes up a lot on this list. The smbfs driver in the current stable Linux kernel can't handle files over 2GB. I think cifs (which is replacing smbfs in the development kernels) is supposed handle large files and a lot of the other things that just don't work with smbfs. For mounting between UNIX machines a native UNIX system like NFS is better right now, but I think you can also get a backported cifs driver for the Linux 2.4 kernels. -- Michael Heironimus -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
