[sllug-members]: Network 2 GB Limit transfer

[Matthew Hatch]

Paul Koshevoy wrote:
> Jared Bernard wrote:
>> I've set up a samba file server for our home network, but anytime I try to 
>> transfer a file more then 2GB it fails. 
>>
>> The Server is running CentOS 4.4 (which is basically RHEL) Kernel 2.6.9-42 and 
>> Samba 3.0.10-1. It's a mixed network of Linux and windows. 
>>
>> I've googled the issue and everything I've found seems to say that there was a 
>> 2GB limit with kernel 2.4 and older samba versions, but apparently that 
>> should have been fixed with newer versions. 
>>
>> I know it's not a networking issue (at least with the clients or router) 
>> because I can transfer over 2GB using Knoppix running as a liveCD wtih no 
>> problems. 
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas what might be the issue and how I can go about 
>> fixing it?
>>
>> thanks,
> 
> It could be the underlying file system issue -- does FAT even support files
> larger than 2GB?

As Jared mentioned that he's not using FAT on his network, this is more
informational than anything...  Anyway, FAT32 supports files up to 4GB.
 I confirmed that today by accident when copying a bunch of .iso's over
to an intermediary partition, and one of them was a DVD image that
stopped copying at exactly 4GB.

So, there you go.

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