[Owncloud] Help needed: Big files over WebDAV

[Evert Pot]

On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:51 PM, Klaas Freitag <freitag at owncloud.com> wrote:

> On 10.01.2013 20:26, Evert Pot wrote:
>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 10.01.2013, at 20:15, Evert Pot <evert at rooftopsolutions.nl> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Daniel Molkentin <danimo at owncloud.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> This also me ans 2 GB are a limit for owncloud on Windows, since the official binary packages are 32bit...
>>>> 
>>>> In my opinion owncloud should emit a big fat warning when running on 32bit PHP and pre-emptively reject anything beyond 2 GB.
>>>> 
>>>> Evert
>>> 
>>> Agreed. If there is no way to fix it which would be better of course ;-)
>> 
>> I personally don't really see a way as long as filesize() returns an int.
> Yes, but that would also count for 64 bit, right?

The difference is that on 64bit PHP PHP_INT_MAX is 9223372036854775807, which is 8192 petabytes.

> 
> ownCloud uses a funny hack to get the actual file size of files, it calls the shell function stat, which is not really a cheap way but still...
> 
> Actually large files work with ownCloud, I tested with 4.3 GB. Can be uploaded and is displayed correctly in WI.

That's surprising at least.. 

Evert