Tim Robbins wrote: >On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:03:08PM +1030, Benjamin Close wrote: > > > >>Hi All, >> Whilst tinkering with some backups the other day I noticed that >>smbfs capped out at 4G. >>Does the protocol restrict it to this limit or is there something else? >> >> > >What exactly doesn't work for files >4G? smbfs is supposed to support >files up to 2^64 bytes in size, but the code may be buggy or incomplete. > > >Tim > > Quite a bit. I can't create a file bigger than 4G, cat to a file bigger than 4G or do anything to make it bigger than 4G. ie: cis209883# cd /mnt/smbfs cis209883# /home/benjsc/bin/createfile filename 4294967296 cis209883# ls -l filename -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4294967296 Dec 22 10:07 filename cis209883# echo "This string will not be appended" >> filename cis209883# ls -l filename -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4294967296 Dec 22 10:07 filename This seems like a nasty bug as well cis209883# /home/benjsc/bin/createfile filename2 5368709120 cis209883# ls -l filename2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1073741824 Dec 22 10:08 filename2 cis209883# ls -lh filename2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1G Dec 22 10:08 filename2 Yet on a ufs partition: cis209883# cd /mnt/raid cis209883# /home/benjsc/bin/createfile filename2 5368709120 cis209883# ls -l filename2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5368709120 Dec 22 10:10 filename2 cis209883# ls -lh filename2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5G Dec 22 10:10 filename2 Cheers, Benjamin -- 3D Research Associate / System Administrator +61 8 8302 3669 School of Computer and Information Science Room D1-07, ML Campus University of South Australia Mawson Lakes Blvd. Benjamin.Close_at_cs.unisa.edu.au South Australia, 5095 F00D C83D 5F7E 5561 DF91 B74D E602 CAA3 4842 B5B4Received on Sun Dec 21 2003 - 14:47:44 UTC
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