[ale] Linux+Samba+WinXP with very large files

[Dow_Hurst]

^From some Googling I don't think that you should have a problem as long as you have NTFS on the WinXP client and the current stable version of Samba on a 64bit enabled Linux filesystem.  You'd need a kernel later than 2.4.19, but would have that in any current distro.  It wasn't easy to figure out that Samba is just mimic'ing the communication protocol so really the filesystem and OS file size limits are what limit what you can do.  I should have realized this but didn't think it through.  Now, the examples that I saw posted were dealing with the 2Gb limit from older kernels.  Updating to a kernel later than what they currently fixed the file size problem.  It clearly wasn't Samba at the time.  I'd definitely look at XFS if you have good power protection and really large files like 10Gb or larger.  It was designed for that kind of work.

Dow


-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com>
>Sent: May 21, 2006 8:28 PM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
>Subject: [ale] Linux+Samba+WinXP with very large files
>
>Hi,
>
>Does anyone have any problems with reading/writing/deleting very large 
>files across a samba share from a WinXP system to a Linux system?  I am 
>looking to setup a samba share for some 10GB or larger files.  Both 
>systems will have GB ethernet cards, but I am worried that past 
>experiences with samba and large files will haunt me.  Any info?
>
>Tia,
>
>-Jim P.
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