On Thursday 04 September 2003 10:07, Kyle Faber wrote:
> On Thursday 04 September 2003 9:54 am, C Graham wrote:
> > I have an older version of Red Hat (6.?). Trying to use samba to backup
> > work related folders on Windows NT. The sum of all files is in access of
> > 2 GB.
>
> It is a windows file system limitation under NT. Your file size is limited
> to 2GB.
Since when? As far as I know, NTFS has been able to handle large files for,
like, forever. Now, FAT32 is, of course, limited to 2GB... SMB may also be
limited to 2GB, I'd need to go check Microsoft's KnowledgeBase to tell you
for sure, but I suspect there's a newer version that allows bigger files
(much like NFS V2 vs. NFS V4, or Linux 2.2 vs. Linux 2.4). I do know that
either Samba or the 'smbfs' in the Linux kernel limits you to 2GB filesize, I
ran into that at a previous job. But NT and NTFS have no problems with big
files (other than the typical problems that come from running Microsoft
software, such as high cost, incompatibility with open solutions, etc. etc.).
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