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From: Mark Adams on 29 May 2006 00:24
I've been struggling with downloading large files (Mandriva iso's) to my
Mdk 10.1-based server. I've recently discovered a filesize limit of
some kind and a quick look at samba and Reiserfs doesn't show me
anything that might allow me to increase that filesize limit.

The limit shows up like this when copying a file just larger than 2.0
GB. Copying the file to server shares failed in Konqueror with an error
"The process for file protocol died unexpectedly."

When I tried to copy it at the CLI I got:

# copy /home/madams/Mandriva* /mnt/shuttle/super/iso
File size limit exceeded

Obvious question: What is this filesize limit and how do I change it?

Thanks.
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From: Wes Newell on 29 May 2006 02:15
On Sun, 28 May 2006 22:24:28 -0600, Mark Adams wrote:

> File size limit exceeded
>
> Obvious question: What is this filesize limit and how do I change it?
>
1 - 10 of about 63,900 for Reiserfs file size limit - 0.21 sec

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From: Mark Adams on 29 May 2006 02:53
Wes Newell wrote:
> On Sun, 28 May 2006 22:24:28 -0600, Mark Adams wrote:
>
>> File size limit exceeded
>>
>> Obvious question: What is this filesize limit and how do I change it?
>>
> 1 - 10 of about 63,900 for Reiserfs file size limit - 0.21 sec
>


Actually, it turns out it isn't Reiserfs at all. I needed to add the
"lfs" element to my mount lines in fstab and remount the shares. I
transferred the file from the CLI and it just passed checksum. I'm
reasonably confident that it would copy with Konqeror, MC or any utility
of my choice.

I spent about 45 minutes sifting Google to discover that little fact,
but I did find it. Of course I also discovered that their is a size
limit to files in Reiserfs -- 1 Exbibyte (Exbibyte? 2^60 bytes? Are they
making that up?)

I'm still a bit inflamed about it though. We're up to kernel 2.6 and
this is not a well documented thing. Why doesn't that option show up in
any of the config wizards? Why is it not in the man page for smbmount?
And why the arbitrary 2Gig limitation when users frequently work with
whole DVD's of data that run around 4.5 GB?

Who do I complain to?

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From: Donald Tees on 29 May 2006 08:04
Mark Adams wrote:
> I've been struggling with downloading large files (Mandriva iso's) to my
> Mdk 10.1-based server. I've recently discovered a filesize limit of
> some kind and a quick look at samba and Reiserfs doesn't show me
> anything that might allow me to increase that filesize limit.
>
> The limit shows up like this when copying a file just larger than 2.0
> GB. Copying the file to server shares failed in Konqueror with an error
> "The process for file protocol died unexpectedly."
>
> When I tried to copy it at the CLI I got:
>
> # copy /home/madams/Mandriva* /mnt/shuttle/super/iso
> File size limit exceeded
>
> Obvious question: What is this filesize limit and how do I change it?
>
> Thanks.

You trying to write to a windows partition?

Donald
From: Matt Payton on 29 May 2006 09:20
On Mon, 29 May 2006 00:53:25 -0600, Mark Adams wrote:

> Wes Newell wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 May 2006 22:24:28 -0600, Mark Adams wrote:
>>
>>> File size limit exceeded
>>>
>>> Obvious question: What is this filesize limit and how do I change it?
>>>
>> 1 - 10 of about 63,900 for Reiserfs file size limit - 0.21 sec
>>
>
>
> Actually, it turns out it isn't Reiserfs at all. I needed to add the
> "lfs" element to my mount lines in fstab and remount the shares. I
> transferred the file from the CLI and it just passed checksum. I'm
> reasonably confident that it would copy with Konqeror, MC or any utility
> of my choice.
>
> I spent about 45 minutes sifting Google to discover that little fact,
> but I did find it. Of course I also discovered that their is a size
> limit to files in Reiserfs -- 1 Exbibyte (Exbibyte? 2^60 bytes? Are they
> making that up?)
>
> I'm still a bit inflamed about it though. We're up to kernel 2.6 and
> this is not a well documented thing. Why doesn't that option show up in
> any of the config wizards?

That's a problem with the gui interfaces. I've yet to see a gui frontend
to mount/smbmount that includes it.

> Why is it not in the man page for smbmount?

That's really the issue. I remember running into the same problem, and
after quite a bit of searching, I did find bug reports ( I think in
Debian ) that the lfs option was missing from the man page. Not sure if
Debian "fixed" that, but I know most other distibutions haven't.

> And why the arbitrary 2Gig limitation when users frequently work with
> whole DVD's of data that run around 4.5 GB?

Probably because when smbfs was implemented, large files were not as
common. The lfs options was added to address it, but was not well
documented. Then CIFS came along to replace smbfs, and the limit much
larger.

> Who do I complain to?

Whoever maintains the man pages and/or any of the frontends. But my guess
is that since CIFS is now the preferred method of mounting Windows/Samba
shares, not much will happen.

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