[ale] Linux+Samba+WinXP with very large files

[Barlow, Jim D]

Dow,

While any of the desktop chips from the chip vendors have been 64 bit
for the last year...

Keep in mind you don't need 64 bit chip memory register hardware for a
large file capable filesystem.  The filesystems have been able to exceed
4G (moving well past the original 2G limitations) since the 2.6 kernel
came out, if not before.

My P3 and (older pre EM64T) P4 systems manipulate > 16 Gig files in my
bacula setup.

I would use the old chip / motherboard if the performance is OK.

- Jim   

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
To: ale at ale.org
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Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 1:45 AM
To: Dow_Hurst; Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Linux+Samba+WinXP with very large files

Dow_Hurst wrote:
>> From some Googling I don't think that you should have a problem as
>> long as you have NTFS on the WinXP client and the current stable
>> version of Samba on a 64bit enabled Linux filesystem.  You'd need a
>> kernel later than 2.4.19, but would have that in any current
>> distro.  It wasn't easy to figure out that Samba is just mimic'ing
>> the communication protocol so really the filesystem and OS file
>> size limits are what limit what you can do.  I should have realized
>> this but didn't think it through.  Now, the examples that I saw
>> posted were dealing with the 2Gb limit from older kernels.
>> Updating to a kernel later than what they currently fixed the file
>> size problem.  It clearly wasn't Samba at the time.  I'd definitely
>> look at XFS if you have good power protection and really large
>> files like 10Gb or larger.  It was designed for that kind of work.

>I hadn't thought about the 32/64 bit issue.  I was hoping to use some 
>existing 32bit hardware, but I guess I can't now.

>Anyone know of a low-power no-frills 64bit capable motherboard+chip?

>Thanks Dow.


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