Re: kern/42175: smbfs doesn't support files large than 4GB

[Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/42175; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nicolas Joly <njoly%pasteur.fr@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/42175: smbfs doesn't support files large than 4GB
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:26:29 +0200

 On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:05:00AM +0000, tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost wrote:
 > >Number:         42175
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       smbfs doesn't support files large than 4GB
 [...]
 > >Description:
 > To test NetBSD-current's SMBFS I tried to write a large file to my
 > Apple Time Capsule. It worked fine until the file got larger
 > than 4GB:
 
 I wanted to have a look, but your test does not fail for me. This is a
 smbfs mount from a NetApp filer.
 
 njoly@lanfeust [silo/njoly]> uname -a
 NetBSD lanfeust.sis.pasteur.fr 5.99.20 NetBSD 5.99.20 (LANFEUST) #3: Wed Oct 
14 15:15:48 CEST 2009  
njoly%lanfeust.sis.pasteur.fr@localhost:/local/src/NetBSD/obj.amd64/sys/arch/amd64/compile/LANFEUST
 amd64
 njoly@lanfeust [silo/njoly]> df -h .
 Filesystem            Size       Used      Avail %Cap Mounted on
 //NJOLY@SILO/SIS      1.3T       1.2T        40G  96% /mount/silo
 njoly@lanfeust [silo/njoly]> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=5120 of=test.img
 5120+0 records in
 5120+0 records out
 5368709120 bytes transferred in 621.933 secs (8632294 bytes/sec)
 
 njoly@hal [/mnt/njoly]> uname -a
 NetBSD hal.sis.pasteur.fr 5.99.20 NetBSD 5.99.20 (HAL) #0: Tue Oct 13 19:39:35 
CEST 2009  
njoly%hal.sis.pasteur.fr@localhost:/local/src/NetBSD/obj.i386/sys/arch/i386/compile/HAL
 i386
 njoly@hal [/mnt/njoly]> df -h .
 Filesystem            Size       Used      Avail %Cap Mounted on
 //NJOLY@SILO/SIS      1.3T       1.2T        40G  96% /mnt
 njoly@hal [/mnt/njoly]> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024k count=5120 of=test.img
 5120+0 records in
 5120+0 records out
 5368709120 bytes transferred in 660.953 secs (8122679 bytes/sec)
 
 -- 
 Nicolas Joly
 
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