SUBJECT: errmsg "The file protocol process died unexpectedly" Hope this hermaphrodite/SaMBa-network issue saves someone some of the head-scratching that I have been through for the past 24 hours.
I have been having a problem xferring a 34GB "Norton Ghost" image from my personal-networked FC3 RAIDed backup server to my USB2 portable Maxtor 200GB HD. In several tries, the process always fails in the same manner, i.e., the errmsg below shows up and a truncated 4GB file is all that is present on the Maxtor despite bow-koo free space. BTW... the process also died in exactly the same manner when I tried to write the file to the Maxtor over the network while the portable was connected to the FC3 system. This more-or-less exonerated linux. The errmsg was just linux's voicing of the problem 'cuz that's where we were hooked up. I'll bet (but I haven't tried yet) that I'll get a similar - tho prolly more cryptic - errmsg from windoze xpee when I try to do the same when directly connected to the wxpee machine. Paraphrased form the wwweb: "VFAT has a file size limit of 4GB. That would explain the download or file-transfer corrupting or quitting at 4GB. This would not happen if the maxtor was formatted as an ext3 partition." This explains why: 1. when Ghosting directly to the 200GB Maxtor from Windoze (as ususal) - and NOT to a separate NTFS partition, Ghost - unbidden - breaks the ghost image into separate 4GB blocks - NOT so that they can be written to DVDs as previously surmised, and 2, This is why xferring a large (>4GB) file to the Maxtor (VFat by intersystem compatibility necessity) from FC3 fails when reaching 4GB with the errmsg: "The file protocol process died unexpectedly" (NTFS - like ext3 - has no such 4GB filesize limit. There may be one, but I don't know where (in filesize) it is, and I don't wanna know. 7;^D -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
