While transferring data from my linux box (which has ext3 partitions, and on this linux box I have samba mounted the unraid server's disks which are visible on my network, so its basically a cp command from inside this linux box to transfer the data), I'm getting the following message:

 

"File size limit exceeded"

 

And this thing is happening for all the files which are bigger than 2147483647 i.e. 2GB in size.

 

I have checked 'ulimit -a' on both unraid box (with telnet) and on my linux box. This 2gb limitation is not present there...

 

can anyone help out here?

 

 

Also, there is any way to put the IDE harddrives on a USB enclosure and directly attach to the unraid system (which is just using sata drives) and mount the external usb enclosure and transfer data?

 

Any elaborate instructions with commands will be really helpful.

 

While transferring data from my linux box (which has ext3 partitions, and on this linux box I have samba mounted the unraid server's disks which are visible on my network, so its basically a cp command from inside this linux box to transfer the data), I'm getting the following message:

 

"File size limit exceeded"

 

And this thing is happening for all the files which are bigger than 2147483647 i.e. 2GB in size.

 

I have checked 'ulimit -a' on both unraid box (with telnet) and on my linux box. This 2gb limitation is not present there...

 

can anyone help out here?

Could be the Samba build on your linux box - I believe there's a config option for building samba with 'large file support'.

 

 

Also, there is any way to put the IDE harddrives on a USB enclosure and directly attach to the unraid system (which is just using sata drives) and mount the external usb enclosure and transfer data?

 

Any elaborate instructions with commands will be really helpful.

 

 

At the present time unraid will only 'scan' IDE and SATA ports for hard drives.  I'll put it on the 'todo' list to scan USB ports as well - the code for this is a bit more complicated than that for IDE/SATA so it hasn't been implemented yet.

Thanks Tom. Yes, it was the samba build on my linux.

 

Also, I think scanning USB would be an excellent addition. As it will make a lot of data transfer issues go away.

especially if that function is coupled with NTFS support, take a windows data disk, put it in an enclosure, hook it up to the unraid box, mount it and go. (or have it automatically mount is on boot, but not as a unRaid drive)