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Date:      Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:48:42 -0600
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        Chris Pratt <eagletree@hughes.net>, David Horn <dhorn2000@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: smbfs 2 GB file size limit
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At 02:05 PM 11/20/2008, Chris Pratt wrote:

>On Nov 20, 2008, at 7:21 AM, David Horn wrote:
>
>>On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Derek Ragona
>>>>
>>>>No error message, it just stopped writing at 1 Gb.  I was doing
>>>>this using
>>>>scp.
>>>
>>>Whoa, hopefully you just made a few typos here, or we are going down
>>>the wrong path of investigation.
>>>
>>>Did you really mean to say scp or cp ?
>>>      scp(1)                   - secure copy (remote file copy
>>>program)
>>>      cp(1)                    - copy files
>>>
>>>...
>>What ssh version is running on both of these "other" systems ?
>>What OS are both of these other systems ?
>>
>>>
>>>So it looks to me like there is some issue with the scp that is
>>>within
>>>FreeBSD i386 7.
>>
>>As per my previous message, I still suggest running single variable
>>tests to make sure that you know what is causing the failure, but if
>>you just want to jump to a possible solution, you can try updating ssh
>>to the latest in the ports tree (5.0p1).
>>
>>If you have the FreeBSD ports collection installed and updated using
>>portsnap(8) or csup(1) , just do:
>>
>>cd /usr/ports/security/openssh-portable
>>make install
>>
>>Otherwise, install / update your ports collection using portsnap(8)
>>(fetch update or fetch extract) first, then install openssh-portable.
>>
>>Good Luck.
>>
>>---Dave
>
>I apologize in advance if this has nothing to do with this. I'd ignored
>this thread completely since it had "SMB" in the subject. Today I
>noticed the comments shown above that it was apparently actually
>related to ssh (scp). The fired a synapse of a recent session failure
>I was having after updating a server to 7.0 that normally accrues
>about a gig of changes a day. My backup server was running 5.5
>and rsyncing the diffs each day. After the upgrade of the application
>server, the 5.5 client began to hang it's rsync session every day. I
>updated
>the 5.5 server to 7.0 (which OBTW replaced the ssh suite) and the
>problem disappeared. I didn't see in the thread what the actual ssh
>client OS or rev was but perhaps the client is downrev and there is an
>issue there. I did no research to figure out why, having my backup
>server so far downrevved made it's upgrade my first potshot and it
>worked.

Chris,

Thanks for the additional input.  I am going to try updating openssh from 
the ports as this appears to be an issue with scp.

         -Derek

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