Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 22:23:49 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: smbfs 4G max file size Message-ID: <3FE3EAF5.94E23A4@mindspring.com> References: <3FE29BA4.9060205@unisa.edu.au> <3FE2CD51.FCF0BD4D@mindspring.com> <20031219114853.GA234@wombat.robbins.dropbear.id.au>
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Tim Robbins wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:05:05AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > Benjamin Close wrote: > > > 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. I think you haven't looked at the code in question. Apple only applies the APSL to code that it writes. There are a number of projects that were originally external code, and for those, the license is whatever it started as. Since the SMBFS code is a port of the FreeBSD SMBFS code, the license has been left alone. As to the reintroduction of bugs, I seriously doubt it, since the SMBFS follows the FreeBSD changes pretty religiously on its own. -- Terry
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