On Sun Jan 12, 2003 at 12:31:41AM -0500, Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Ahhh... now I feel like an ass. Sorry Bob... my previous message in this thread was a little heavy (been a long weekend). My apologies for some harsh words. Your message wasn't threaded with the rest in the thread, so I didn't see it until now.
> > Anyways, does 2.2.7a fix this 2GB file limit problem? How long has > > this problem been around (this is the first I've heard of it, but I'm > > not a samba user). > > It most certainly does. I posted something here, didn't get any replies, so > I went to the Samba list, where the issue was discussed hot and heavy! The > 2.2.7A definitely fixed the 2gb limit problem, although apparently smbmount > still has the bug, last I heard (this may now be fixed - it's been a while > now since I've been off the samba list). I didn't see the post. Mind you, if I spent my time reading, thoroughly, every message on the expert and cooker lists, I wouldn't have time to build updates, so I could have missed it (well, I did miss it). So do you know if 2.2.7a is an interim fix or is *the* fix? > > It's also unfair to be sitting around and yelling "Hey Mandrake when > > are you going to fix this bug that no one reported?". Is there a > > bugzilla entry for this? I am assuming that if this was a legitimate > > problem that needed to be addressed in updates, and the bug had been > > reported to someone here, that it would have been forwarded to myself. > > This hasn't happened so I can only assume one of two things: It was > > reported, but not acted on, or it wasn't reported. > > I reported it here on this list. If there is another place to do so, please > let me know. I had hoped that since there was a 2.2.7a rpm in cooker that > someone knew about it, and a fix was in the works. Better place to report would be something trackable... bugzilla or MandrakeExpert. Since this was for a released version of Mandrake, ME would have been your best bet since, AFAIK, there is no bugzilla for older distribs. > > as i understood it, the 2 gig limit wasa fat problem, not a Samba problem, > > If this is the case, then an upgrade wouldn't fix the problem, right? > > If you're running on an old file system that has a 2gb limit, of course there > will be a problem. But ext3 works nicely past 2gb. > > I ended up finding an (older now) cooker rpm that works with 9.0. First > though, I tried building from source. This failed, while it worked fine on a > 7.1 mandrake machine. I didn't dig too far to see why it failed. Rebuilding a src.rpm, or the samba sources? > > If someone has some reference on the samba site or mailing list or > > something that 2.2.7a fixes this problem explicitly, please let us > > know. If this is something that upgrading to 2.2.7a will fix, then I > > would be happy to do it. > > How about: > http://us1.samba.org/samba/whatsnew/samba-2.2.7a.html That's a good one. =) Thanks, Bob. I'll see what I can come up with for a bugfix release in the near future. I can't promise it this week, but it will get done. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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