Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:48:53 +1100 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smbfs 4G max file size Message-ID: <20031219114853.GA234@wombat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <3FE2CD51.FCF0BD4D@mindspring.com> References: <3FE29BA4.9060205@unisa.edu.au> <3FE2CD51.FCF0BD4D@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:05:05AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > Benjamin Close wrote: > > Hi All, > > Whilst tinkering with some backups the other day I noticed that > > smbfs capped out at 4G. > > Does the protocol restrict it to this limit or is there something else? > > It is a limitation imposed by the 32 bit file size in bytes field > for the over the wire protocol. It occurs becaus the FreeBSD SMBFS > client code uses a slightly older, cruftier version of the SMB > protocol (at least this is my understanding). > > I've acutally suggested a couple of times in the past that someone > take the Darwin SMBFS code from MacOS X (10.3, Panther), which is > now up on the Apple developer site, and back-port it to FreeBSD. This is a pain to do without proper change logs or version control and there are problems with their choice of licence. In addition, porting Apple's code would re-introduce many bugs that have been fixed in FreeBSD. Tim
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