[NBLUG/talk] Samba and large files.

[Steve Johnson]

That helps, thanks Chris,

I'm in a situation where changing the kernel is not an option.. So I have
come up with another solution using tar and piping it into split to create
smaller files.. This solves my problem for now.

If you are curious how I did it, you can read my blog entry about it
http://blog.fratm.com/node/11

Thanks for the replies..

-Steve

(Thanks to Scott Doty for confirming the header issue I was having in this
solution..)


2009/3/19 Christopher Wagner <waggie at waggie.net>

>  I remember struggling with this particular limitation, now that you
> mention it, but don't recall how I solved it.  It was on a Redhat 7.2 box,
> and I don't remember having to compile anything, but that was an awful long
> time ago..  I did end up mounting with CIFS but don't remember precisely
> how.  Some Googling suggests that a RHEL3 kernel upgrade to support CIFS is
> in order.
>
> Sorry I'm not more help.
>
> - Chris
>
> Steve Johnson wrote:
>
> Steve, Chris
>
> NTFS From what I have been told by the other sysadmin.. This on on a Win2k3
> Server box..
>
> I've been digging around google for this, and it looks like I may need to
> mount the file system as CIFS, so I am going to see what is invovled in
> getting that file system support in my RHEL3 system.. It does not look like
> RedHat has support for this.. so I may need to compile the modules my self..
>
> -Steve
>
>
> 2009/3/19 Christopher Wagner <waggie at waggie.net>
>
>> This is kind of a stupid question, but what's the destination filesystem?
>> I've encountered a similar problem in the distant past, and I believe it
>> ended up being the filesystem that was causing the problem, not samba.
>> Otherwise, I've never had issues transferring files larger than 2 GB with
>> Samba.
>>
>> - Chris
>>
>> Steve Johnson wrote:
>>
>>  I'm trying to move a 6Gig file over to a Samba share from my linux box,
>> and the system keeps bombing out at 2.1Gigs.. this appears to be a limit
>> with samba, but I read that if you add -o lfs to the command line when
>> mounting the samba stuff, that it will allow larger than 2.1G files..  But..
>> I am using automount, and it seems to ignore that flag..
>>
>> Does anyone know a way to make this work?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
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