Samba and the 2-gigabyte limit

Thu Sep 22 20:46:46 UTC 2005

Hm, yesterday I found something similar when copying from a 
debian-machine to a smb-mounted WinXP-Share.
There was a "file size limit exceeded" or similar with about 2GB file 
size.
Maybe a limit for samba?
Jakob

On Thursday, September 22, 2005, at 08:01 PM, Marius Gedminas wrote:

> Yesterday I discovered that two Ubuntu Hoary machines have problems if 
> I
> try to share a large file (> 2GB) over Samba.  Sequential reads seem to
> work OK, but any seek to an offset > 2^31 gives -EINVAL.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> (NFS works fine, BTW.)
>
> Marius Gedminas
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