Steve, On Friday 15 October 2004 13:43, steve-ss wrote:
On Friday 15 October 2004 21:19, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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There is a filesystem limit at around 2GB. Perhaps you run into such a problem...
Does that mean that I can't have a file bigger than 2GB?
No, not if you do it right. I assume you're talking about SMB / Samba, not
NFS, which has no such limit.
Check out the topic thread "NFS versus Samba" from this list last month.
Here's the most pertinent post from Martin Farmilo (
Yes - the issue isn't Samba (the server), but smbfs (the client). And as Steve has pointed out, you can override the default to allow > 2gb files. But you can also use cifs instead, which doesn't have the limit. You just specify cifs in the mount command, instead of smbfs.
Randall Schulz