2GB limit on samba and nfs?

[Thornton]

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 09:20 -0700, Guy Fraser wrote:
> The only 4GB limit I am aware of is using vfat and is a limitation of
> fat32. As was previously reported SMB has a 2GB limit. Ext2 and Ext3 
> can all have files larger than 4GB.
> 
> As for FTP, I have heard of some windows clients that can't handle 
> more than 4GB, but the standard linux ones can or we would not be 
> able to download the 4.7 GB DVD images.
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2004-26-12 at 21:49 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> > Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 03:51, Mike Burger wrote:
> > > 
> > >>Sorry for the cross post, but the environment calls for it.
> > >>
> > >>I'm running a RHL9 server, and an FC2 client.
> > >>
> > >>Whether by NFS or SMB, I'm running into the same problem.
> > >>
> > >>On my FC2 client system, I'm trying to create a 3.5GB file on the RHL9 based
> > >>server.  Every time I try, though, I get stuck at the 2GB mark.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > this is a problem with smbfs. It's known to have a 2GB limit.
> > > perhaps you can try using cifs?
> > > 
> > 
> > I was working on a server that I setup and was transfering an 8 gig+ 
> > file via ftp to the server which transfered without  problem. When 
> > transferring the file from the server to the client machine, the file 
> > stopped transfer at 4 gb or 2 gb (memory fails for exactness). When 
> > trying to view the 8gb file in the http server, it also disapeared at a 
> > size greater than 4 gb area and was not visible from the http server.
> > 
> > I then resorted to samba to transfer the 8 gb+ file to the client from 
> > the samba share on the server.
> > My question: Is there a 4gb limit for http and ftp outgoing on Fedora? 
> > If so, how would one overcome the 4 gb limit? Samba using the default 
> > setup seems to not have the file size limitation.
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
this happened to me as well at the2gb mark..it would just stall for ever

i finally just copied the file over using samba and that worked fine