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

[Jim Popovitch]

Dow_Hurst wrote:
> 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.

I hadn't thought about the 32/64 bit issue.  I was hoping to use some 
existing 32bit hardware, but I guess I can't now.

Anyone know of a low-power no-frills 64bit capable motherboard+chip?

Thanks Dow.