Apologies for not being clear and informative in the previous comment.

Yes even in the debian samba package, the error is seen for vfat only - not
for ext2/3.

My preliminary opinion is that the issue is with respect to the way samba is
currently handling large file transfers for vfat file systems and hence not
necessarily a vfat issue.
But as it is seen only on ARM platform, maybe something going haywire while
handling large files because of some ARM specific peculiarities like
alignment issues etc.?

Regards,
Salil

On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Oliver Grawert <o...@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> from teh last comment it is not really clear to me if thats a vfat or
> actually a samba issue, since it doesnt seem to happen with different
> other underlying filesystems but seems to only occur on vfat.
>
> salil, if you use debians samba package, do you see the same behavior
> wrt ext2/3/4 vs vfat ?
>
> --
> On samba of ubuntu-arm, large file copy fails
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416313
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> Status in “samba” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
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>
> I am using ubuntu-arm on Sheevaplug platform - Jaunty-9.04 - A samba share
> is exported, I can access it fine from windows copy/paste  small sized files
> easily. But when I try to copy a larger sized file, greater than 100 M or
> so, the copy fails after a minute or so saying 'Network Name is no longer
> available'. Now the copying is still going on in the background - because I
> can see the size of the file increasing via console on the sheevaplug.  I
> have fair reason to believe that this might be the call to ftruncate() which
> is taking a lot of time. So a way out might be to compile samba again with
> 'enable large-file' support of something similar.
> Right now it appears to be broken.
>

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