Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)
(A side note - the mailer that is used here seems to cause problems in
outlook express... I can hear the screams from here, but I don't always
have time to switch between all four hundred email folders on my system to
check for new mail).
On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Cassandra Ludwig <cass@ophiuchi.net> [2002.01.16.0359 +0100]:
> > This is where I hit a problem. The ext2 filesystem happens to have a 2Gb
> > limit for filesizes, so first problem hit there. Then after upgrading the
> > kernel in the server to a 2.4 kernel (2.4.17) I changed the storage
> > partition to using reisferfs... now I can create large files and store them
> > on the server locally, but anytime (and any method) I try to send the files
> > to the server the server kills the file at exactly 2gb in size.
>
> you are going windoze->linux or the other way? what windoze?
Windows 98 -> Linux (Debian Testing).
I have also tested this with Windows ME -> linux same fault.
> i am sure that the problem is samba and other daemons not being able to
> handle >2Gb files, even though the kernel can handle them.
>
> have you tried tar? piping tar over a simple socket as created with
> netcat:
Um... okay, for some reason I seem to be missing here, but you seem to
think I have a unix command shell under windows... not last time I
checked. I also do NOT want a specialty solution that works with
difficulty.
> nc -l -p 54321 | (cd /dumphere; tar xfz -)
>
> and then pipe into a local netcat
>
> tar cfz - /store/myfilesdir | nc serverip 54321
>
> ?
>
> again, for clarification, your files are currently on an ext2 partition,
> right?
>
>
My files are on the windows machine, I want to put them on my linux server
on a reiserfs partition as Linux cannot handle larger than 2gb files on an
ext2 filesystem.
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