I am trying to access a > 2 GByte file resident on a Win2k server drive smbmounted on a RH 9.0 client (2.4.20), but 'ls -l' shows a bogus file size:

# ls -l /mnt/mary-2/Temp/big
total 2145927296
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18446744072115847168 Jun 24 18:53 t.big


A google search lead me to learn that to properly access large files 2.4.20 needs a kernel patch and a patched smbmount as well, but the only patches I can find are for Debian, nothing for RedHat 9.

Does anyone have a suggestion or a work-arround?

Thanks

What does it mean patch for a distro in this case?
As you wrote you need patch the kernel and smbmount. I do not believe they are distro-dependent.

I am looking to patch the 2.4.20 kernel which is included in the RH 9 distro.

I know this is an old thread but we are having file transfer problems between a win2k box and rh 9-smp machine. Specifically, we want to backup our Exchange db which is about 16 gig. Here's what we found so far:

Large File Support (LFS) has been fixed in the 2.4.x series kernels as far as I can tell. I just made several big files ( > 4GB ) and moved them around on Redhat 9 (rh 9) with no problems.

A mount of the windows file system into the Linux space with mount -t smbfs (smbmount) will cause the file size to be way off and any file operations with the large files to be corrupt. You may also generate an extreeme amount of network traffic...

The same operations with smbclient will work correctly _with_ the newest version of samba (3 rc3). Until we updated, we could not get the file to transfer at all.

We are researching the smbmount problems, because we would like to use rsync without resorting to cygwin / rsyncd on the Win clients...

--paul

Although there appear to be SAMBA patches which will allow Win2k.XP clients to access large files on SAMBA servers, I didn't have the time or skills to apply them to RH 9, so we bought a NFS server for Win2k and used NFS mounts to access the Win files.