2GB limit on samba and nfs?
Jim Cornette
fc-cornette at insight.rr.com
Mon Dec 27 02:49:20 UTC 2004
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
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