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Old 07-20-2004, 04:25 PM   #1
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Cannot see files larger than 4G in NFS and 2G in SMB


Hey all,

I've been wrestling with this problem for some time now and finally after trying a few things I'm breaking down and asking for help.

I've got a nice gentoo server running all my servers (nfs, smb, apache, ftp, etc..) and also runs as my mythtv backend. Some of the files it makes while recording shows are as big as 5-6 gigs.
I can see them, move them and play them just fine on that server, however on my workstation running mandy 9.2 I can not even see them in ntfs or smb.
I've even ftp'd to the server and can't see them with it.
From what I can determine the max file size I can see in nfs and via ftp is 4 gig and the max with smb is 2 gig.

Both machines have reiserfs file system and both are using kernel 2.4.2x so I'm assuming that would not be the issue, however I'm counting nothing out at this time.

I've tried adjusting my ntfs server settings and client settings with no change.

If anyone has any thoughts on this I'm all ears.

Much Thanks,
Muddy

Last edited by Muddy; 07-20-2004 at 08:43 PM.
 
Old 07-20-2004, 05:01 PM   #2
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Your current kernel probably isn't compiled to support files larger than 2GB. You'll probably want to take a peek in the config, if it wasn't compiled with large file support, might need to recompile to get this support.
 
Old 07-20-2004, 05:11 PM   #3
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haha, that's exactly what I thought so I ran a makemenuconfig and can't find where the heck I adjust that at, any idea?
 
Old 07-20-2004, 08:44 PM   #4
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Correction, it's NFS not ntfs, I was typing too fast. :-P
 
Old 07-21-2004, 05:42 PM   #5
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I did not have "nfsvers=3" in my client side fstab file, would that cause me to not see files over 4gig in NFS?
(I'm at work now so I can't test this.)
 
  


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