[sllug-members]: Network 2 GB Limit transfer

[Jon Fullmer]

on 1/27/07 7:57 PM, Jared Bernard at jared.bernard at gmail.com wrote:

>>> 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?
>> 
>> Paul.
> 
> No FAT file systems on the network, only ext3 or NTFS.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jared


It's most likely samba itself. 2 GB would indicate a 32-bit infrastructure
limitation. I know that other programs (Apache, NFS, etc.) require 64-bit
elements to be compiled in.

I don¹t know what the specific fix would be, but I would start with the
compile.

 - Jon