Re: File size limitations, part two...

[Gordon Messmer <yinyang eburg com>]

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 08:02, Rich Parker wrote:
> I asked just yesterday about RH 8.0 and dealing with large files on a 
> /mnt'd WinNT server. Thanks for the few responses I got.
> 
> This seems to be a major limitation for Linux

I missed it the first time around, but you can patch Linux if this is an
issue for you:
http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/index.html

This may already be fixed in 2.4.19, I don't know.

> ads etc. But if there is this kind of limitation in Linux, I can't 
> imagine that VM-Linux will be useful at the Enterprise level

What, that it only recently got support for the 64bit SMB extensions? 
How many enterprises need that?  Most Unix people put their critical
data on Unix servers and publish it over NFS.  Why?  Because it works. 
Unix is a great enabling technology.  Keep your data there, and you can
share it out to both Linux and Windows platforms, and share it well.