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Subject: Re: PATCH: smbfs and >2Gb files
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On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Philippe De Muyter wrote:

> --- 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 ?

Doesn't this just allow smbfs to list the file? If you tried to read all
of it you'd only get the first 2G of it (or is it 4 ...), repeated over
and over.


2.5 has proper support for large files on smbfs, for 2.4 there is a patch
here:
	http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/index.html
(if you can reach that site, the admins have been very "creative" lately ...)

If anything is going into 2.4 I'd prefer if that was it. Maybe for 2.4.20,
I have had some positive reports on that. Note that you need to patch
samba or else the server won't know that the client supports large files.

/Urban

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