(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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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.
