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Posted: April 05 2006,14:23 QUOTE

All,

i have successfully installed a VIA ML6000 system with DSL from Pendrive and a large 250GB drive for data storage. The system is used as my file / video server (Samba via Samba.dsl and NFS), as well as a Slimserver for the Squeezebox.

All is running fine - besides I can no longer access my >2gb video files - both from shell of the server, and from a samba client.

How to fix this?

I am using the 2.1 system.

Many thanks, Michael
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Posted: April 05 2006,14:39 QUOTE

I'm no expert, but I believe this is a kernel limitation. I tried running DSL as a server and could not handle files larger than 2gig via samba or FTP. I eventually setup Mepis as a server and all issues are gone. This is the same kernel as Knoppix 3.4 so I don't believe this is a DSL issue, just kernel limitations.

Chris
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Posted: April 05 2006,16:05 QUOTE

Thanks for the info - not sure Mepis will work for me as i need small distro which can fit on a 256 mb usb stick and can have SlimServer installed on it in addition.

As a Linux novice- what other small distros could be usable?

Thanks, Michael
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Posted: April 05 2006,19:51 QUOTE

new discovery - coreutils.uci seem to do the trick to have the shell access the large files.

SO the kernel allows it.

Now i need to find version of Samba which can handle it.

Any further help appreciated
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Posted: April 05 2006,20:16 QUOTE

Oh, to access them. Yeah, that should work. I don't know about creating them. Some of us have tried creating and moving > 2gig files with DSL and remasters with updated libs with no luck. If you figure it out, please let me know. I haven't found much positive via google around large file support with 2.4.26.

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