2 Gb File Size Limit ?

[Sturla Holm Hansen]

On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 11:41, 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 size limit are on files, not on shares, try to make a file larger
than 2GB.....

Sturla