How odd. There are tons of messages on myth-user which begin "my movie stops playing after xxx time" and the answer is always, "oh, you shared your backend files using Samba which has a 2G limit per file, use NFS instead." I've read the question and answer so many times I never questioned it or tried it myself, since I have only one combined FE/BE system.

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i just copied over a file that's 2.56 gigs with no apparant problems.... maybe this was for an older version of samba or something?

actually I think the issue is with smbfs, which lots of people use to create mountpoints using the smb protocol. smbfs has the 2G limit (as well as a security issue that was just released), the fix is to move to cifs which does not have either problem.

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