terry barnum <terry@dop.com> writes: > 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. RHL 6.1 does not support big files. Enterprise editions of Red Hat Linux 6.2 do, as do Red hat Linux 7.1 and 7.2 (I don't remember RHL 7 - the glibc side is ready, I'm not sure whether the kernel supports it or not). > 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? 2.4 kernel, 2.2 glibc (or patches for both) + compilation flags. > -- Trond Eivind Glomsrød Red Hat, Inc.
