On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:10:58AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 20 Aug 2002, at 8:12am, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: > > Sorry for the lack of description. I didn't want to get into too much > > detail, since it is a bit embarrassing.... I'm doing a Windows backup to a > > samba mount. I get write failures at the 2GB point. I believe that it is > > actually a limit in the ext2 FS. I don't know if ext3 changes this. > > The ext2 disk format is quite capable of handling files in the terabyte > range. > > You may be encountering a limit in: > - the ext2 driver in your kernel > - the general file I/O routines in your kernel > - your C library > - Samba Samba and NFS(v2) don't like >2GB file sizes. http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html
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