Re: 2 gig filesize limit?

[Hal Burgiss <hburgiss bellsouth net>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:48:09AM -0800, terry barnum wrote:
> I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4
> onto our RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as
> /bigdrive.
> 
> Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too
> large." I thought, well maybe Samba has a problem with large files.
> So I tried to ftp the file over using the built-in NT ftp client and
> FTPd--same problem. I then started an FTP server on the NT box and
> tried pulling the file onto the Linux machine. It also died at
> 2147482472 bytes.
> 
> Is there an issue trying to copy files larger than 2 gigs? Is there
> a switch I can throw somewhere that will change this behavior?

There is a 2G ext2 file size limit that is the result of the x86 32bit
architecture. IIRC, there is a patch somewhere that ups the limit.

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Hal B
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