File sizes

[Derek D. Martin]

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At some point hitherto, Mark Komarinski hath spake thusly:
> Samba and NFS(v2) don't like >2GB file sizes.
> http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html

That page is a bit outdated.  It talks about RH 6.2 as being current,
and doesn't mention ext3 at all.  I happened to be looking at the
changelog for Samba the other day for something unrelated, and noticed
that recent versions DO have support for large files as of 2.2.1:

  New option to allow new Windows 2000 large file (64k) streaming
  read/write options. Needs a 64 bit underlying operating system (for
  Linux use kernel 2.4 with glibc 2.2 or above). Can improve performance
  by 10% with Windows 2000 clients. Defaults to off. Not as tested as
  some other Samba code paths.

  http://us2.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.5.html

Haven't used this, so don't know how well it works.  However,
apparently if you're not using Win2k to transfer from, you're still
limited to Windows 4GB SMB limit.

Your best bet will probably be to remove the disk and mount it in the
system you're going to back it up to, and do the copy locally.

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