Samba and the 2-gigabyte limit

[Brian Puccio]

On Thu, 2005-09-22 at 21:01 +0300, 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.

SAMBA overcame the 2GB limit a while ago and shouldn't affect any Ubuntu
users. I came across the same issue myself. Change your fstab to mount
with the lfs option. Google for more, or try reading here:

http://brianpuccio.net/node/664
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