2 Gb File Size Limit ?

[WipeOut]

Ben Davis wrote:

> "Ow Mun Heng" <ow.mun.heng at wdc.com> screef:
>
>>> The smb file system driver in Linux 2.4 has a 2GB size limit.
>>
>
>> Actually, according to the samba team, the 2Gb limit is actually if 
>> you use
>> mount -t smbfs command which is not within the scope of samba. they
>> recommend using smbclient.
>
>
> well there's something I didn't know - and I've been using Samba since 
> pre v2... never been an issue for me. I've got several SMB shares 
> mounted from /etc/fstab on a variety of Windoze boxen, one of them is 
> a +-15gb mp3 share - no problems.
>
> I'm using 2.4.xx, but AFAIR this wasn't a problem on 2.2.xx kernels 
> either -- so I'm curious, where is this limit defined? I run Samba 
> 2.2.1 (patched) and 3.0.0-15 here.
>
> Groetz....j
>
The limit is for a single file of 2GB when using an smbfs type and the 
mount command.. This does not mean that the mount can only be 2GB.. You 
could have 50x1GB files in a mounted filesystem with no problems..

Later..