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Subject: Re: 2 gig filesize limit? From: Steve Borho <steve@borho.myip.org> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 14:03:58 -0600 On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 11:48:09AM -0800, terry barnum wrote: > I've been unsuccessfully trying to move a 3 gig file from WinNTSP4 onto our > RH6.1 server that has a 9 gig ext2 drive mounted as /bigdrive. > > Samba fails at 2 gigs with an error in the log saying, "File too large." I > thought, well maybe Samba has a problem with large files. So I tried to ftp > the file over using the built-in NT ftp client and FTPd--same problem. I > then started an FTP server on the NT box and tried pulling the file onto > the Linux machine. It also died at 2147482472 bytes. > > Is there an issue trying to copy files larger than 2 gigs? Is there a > switch I can throw somewhere that will change this behavior? This is a Linux/x86 limitation. It's been fixed in the experimental 2.3 kernel, but we probably won't see a 2.4 stable release until at least February. ===