On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 05:10, ext terry barnum wrote: > What prompted my hypothetical system question is I'm in the process > of specing out a new file server and I thought maybe someone here > would know if the setup would overcome the 2 gig limit I'm > experiencing with our current server. > > The setup with the 2 gig barrier is running RH 6.1 (2.2) on a Pentium > box with Samba 2.05a with software RAID tools serving ~100 gigs of > drive space. Attempts to copy files larger than 2 gigs fail. I > couldn't find documentation on the Red Hat or Samba sites to > determine the cause. > > So is everyone saying that, except for some applications not > programmed to deal with large files, RH7.2 on a dual pentium box > running Samba should be able to deal with and serve files larger than > 2 gigs? That it's basically a 2.4 kernel thing? Yes, it's a 2.4 kernel thing but patches to 2.2 kernel exist too, and then you need glibc support also. RH7.0 had AFAIR LFS-support in the -enterprise kernel but that won't help you with RH6.1 at all where you'd need to recompile glibc (and probably quite some additional software) too.Go for RH7.2 and save yourself a lot of hassle... - Panu -
