File sizes

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Tue Aug 20 09:07:17 EDT 2002


On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:10:58AM -0400, bscott at ntisys.com wrote:
> On 20 Aug 2002, at 8:12am, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote:
> > Sorry for the lack of description. I didn't want to get into too much
> > detail, since it is a bit embarrassing.... I'm doing a Windows backup to a
> > samba mount. I get write failures at the 2GB point. I believe that it is
> > actually a limit in the ext2 FS. I don't know if ext3 changes this.
> 
>   The ext2 disk format is quite capable of handling files in the terabyte
> range.
> 
>   You may be encountering a limit in:
>   - the ext2 driver in your kernel
>   - the general file I/O routines in your kernel
>   - your C library
>   - Samba
 
Samba and NFS(v2) don't like >2GB file sizes.
http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

-Mark



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