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From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Cc: urban@teststation.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: smbfs and >2Gb files
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:18:51PM +0200, Philippe De Muyter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> One of my workmates created a >2Gb file on a MS-Windows server. That works
> perfectly.  He exported the partition and looked at it from another
> MS-Windows machine, where he can see the right size.  But when we look
> at the file from a linux machine, the reported size is plain wrong (it
> is actually the real size on 32-bit, extended to 64 bit as a signed 32 bit
> value, thus prefixed with 0xffffffff, and then printed as an unsigned 64 bit
> value.).  Not only does `ls -l' not work, but other accesses to the file are
> also impossible.
> 
> Here is a fix (tested on 2.2.16 and 2.4.18) :
> 
> --- include/linux/smb.hbk	Fri May 31 16:43:54 2002
> +++ include/linux/smb.h	Fri May 31 17:55:49 2002
> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
>  	uid_t		f_uid;
>  	gid_t		f_gid;
>  	kdev_t		f_rdev;
> -	off_t		f_size;
> +	size_t		f_size;
>  	time_t		f_atime;
>  	time_t		f_mtime;
>  	time_t		f_ctime;
> 
> Is it possible to incorporate that in the official linux kernel tree ?
> 

You should ask Urban (CCed).  He's the one that made the patch for 2.5, and
ye'll probably have something for 2.4 and maybe 2.2.
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