On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 10:02, Rich Parker wrote: > Hello everyone... > I asked just yesterday about RH 8.0 and dealing with large files on a > /mnt'd WinNT server. Thanks for the few responses I got. > > This seems to be a major limitation for Linux, very unfortunate because > now it looks like I'm going to have to bail on the Linux project I have > that requires dealing with Large Files on a WinNT machine. > > This also brings another question to mind and I realize this is a bit > "Off topic" for Red Hat and I apologize for that. But here's another > concern of mine. We have an IBM mainframe system here running VM as the > base O/S, with several guest O/S's also. IBM is pushing VM-LINUX via TV > ads etc. But if there is this kind of limitation in Linux, I can't > imagine that VM-Linux will be useful at the Enterprise level, in this > fashion. Being the Systems Analyst here, one of the things I do is to > recommend to upper management directions for our mainframe systems. I > have wanted to get them to upgrade to a processor for VM-Linux usage, > but since I have these file size problems, this has now become a major > "Hard sell" to management. Does ANYONE know if this problem is also an > issue in this respect?? Because if it is, I can't make correct > recommendations without knowing one way or the other... > > Again, a bit "Off topic" and I need to know this also. If anyone can > guide me to a source for this, it would be very helpful. >
Rich- First let me say that I have no vm linux experience but I feel certain that the file size is not a limitation you will need to worry about. In fact I don;t see that file size is a problem on linux just in the ntfs side of things. Take a gander at : ibm.com/linux there is an awful lot of good information out there. Also perhaps I do not understand what a /mnt'ed nt server is. Is this an ntfs mounted partition on the same box or a share on an NT box mounted via samba? The samba mailing list is bound to have some good inforamtion on the later and I would be shocked to learn that the samba code has problems with large file sizes, at least or the order of magnitude that you are describing. Before you punt why don't we try to get specific? any thing in the logs of either box involved? Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@;redhat.com?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
