smbfs 4G max file size

Tim Robbins tjr at freebsd.org
Fri Dec 19 23:19:49 PST 2003


On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 05:03:08PM +1030, Benjamin Close wrote:

> Hi All,
>    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?

What exactly doesn't work for files >4G? smbfs is supposed to support
files up to 2^64 bytes in size, but the code may be buggy or incomplete.


Tim


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