AndyLiebman wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Can these applications write large files to the local disk? It could >> be the fault of the application and not of samba. >> > Yes, you might have missed that I mentioned this below. The > applications have no trouble writing big files (> 4 GB) to a local disk. > > I will also reiterate, I have a case in which the very same application > only has trouble under specific circumstances. I am talking about a > Video Editing application. The application can capture most "formats" of > video to the Samba share and produce single files that are 20, 40, 80 > GBs in size. But when capturing in a couple of specific formats, the > capture stops when the file reaches 2 GBs with the message "maximum file > size reached". There is no such limit when capturing to a local drive. > > Similarly, when "importing" certain formats of video, we see that the > import stops at 4 GBs with a similar error. > >> Andrew >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "AndyLiebman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "samba" <samba@lists.samba.org> >> Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 12:21 PM >> Subject: [Samba] Writing files > 2GB from Windows >> >> >>> Can anybody explain why SOME Windows XP applications have trouble >>> writing files larger than 2 GB (or sometimes larger than 4 GB) to >>> Linux Samba shares, when OTHER Windows applications on the same >>> machine do not have difficulty writing large files to the same Samba >>> share? And when the underlying Linux filesystem supports very large >>> files? >>> >>> I have sometimes even found that a SINGLE Windows application can >>> write files larger than 4 GBs while performing SOME operations, but >>> while performing OTHER operations, when a file gets to 2GB or 4GB, >>> you get back a message saying "reached file size limit" or something >>> similar. And those same operations don't cause any trouble when >>> writing > 4GB files to a local hard drive. >>> >>> Is there a setting in smb.conf that can communicate better to Windows >>> applications that large file sizes are supported? >>> >>> Likewise, is there a Windows XP registry setting that can make sure >>> that applications know they can write large files to a Samba share? >>> >>> Help and insight would be appreciated. >>> >>> Andy Liebman >> > This may be dumb, what is file system you are exporting with samba. If you are using ext2, I think there is a 2 GByte limit.
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