[Linux-NTFS-Dev] Re: smbfs large file (2GB+) support problem

[Szakacsits S. <sz...@si...>]

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> 
> > >   3) There are LFS (large file support = 2 GB+) problems with smbfs. 
> > >      Details are here: 
> > > 
> > > 	http://sf.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1043909&forum_id=44085
> > > 
> > >      Kernel 2.6 and 2.4.25 should support smbfs LFS but it seems it's
> > >      buggy. Apparently it sends a slightly wrong request then XP or samba
> > >      3.0 do create (ftruncate) the large file but they answer with "wrong
> > >      parameters" what smbfs interprets as EFBIG (File too large). 

The solution is, apparently, using the 'lfs' option during [smb]mount.
Pretty insane. However I couldn't find any relevant option yet in vanilla
2.4.25 kernel (I didn't check 2.6 yet).

But there is a new smbfs problem. The kernel implementation can't really
handle large file transfers reliable and sometimes gives EIO in the middle
of the transfer. Duh.

	Szaka