Guy Fraser wrote:
On Thu, 2005-28-04 at 13:56 -0500, Debbie Tropiano wrote:
>Mike -
>
>Did you ever get a resolution for this? We're seeing similar problems
>with two of our FC2 systems (2.6.6 kernel) interacting with each other
>via NFS and/or with other systems (including Solaris). Our testing
>shows that it's only a problem on two (of our five FC2 systems) and one
>of them has a 3ware RAID card (the Escalade, not the newer 9000 series)
>so I'm not sure if that's a factor.
>
>Could it be an NFS setting somewhere (the systems were installed from
>the same media and should be setup very close to the same).
>
>We're pretty baffled by this problem, so any advice would be appreciated.
>
I regularly send files over 3GB to my FC3 machine running Samba.
I am unable to send files over 4GB. For larger files I had been
using an external Firewire drive formated with NTFS, but recently
got "Putty" for my Windows machine and am using the SCP client
{pscp} to transfer the files now.
I think Windows (and hence Samba) shares are limited to 4GB because of
the 32-bit file pointer issue (using an int rather than a off_t). On
Linux, this limits programs to a 2GB file size, because it's a signed
int (2^31 = 2G). On Windows, I think they treat it as an unsigned int
(2^32 = 4G).
Not all programs suffer from this--it depends on how they were built.
Apache, for example, has this issue with its log files. Why they
haven't fixed it yet, I don't know. It ain't rocket science.
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