Re: 4GB file size limit on SMBFS

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@zmailer.org)
Wed, 12 Dec 2001 15:44:50 +0200


On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:22:15PM +0100, Petr Titera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tested patches from Urban Wildmark to give SMBFS LFS support and
> found, that limit on file size has only moved from 2GB to 4GB.
> Is this expected behaviour?

It is a possible behaviour.
There are no public official documents about how M$ has extended the SMB
protocol in various systems. Apparently there are discrepancies even
within M$ about how to do those extensions, thus newer M$ systems have
more and more tests and work-arounds to handle various extensions.

> Petr Titera
> P.Titera@century.cz

/Matti Aarnio
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