2GB limit on samba and nfs?

[Jim Cornette]

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