[Owncloud] Help needed: Big files over WebDAV

[Klaas Freitag]

On 10.01.2013 20:56, Evert Pot wrote:
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> On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:51 PM, Klaas Freitag <freitag at owncloud.com> wrote:
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>> On 10.01.2013 20:26, Evert Pot wrote:
>>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:
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>>>> On 10.01.2013, at 20:15, Evert Pot <evert at rooftopsolutions.nl> wrote:
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>>>>> On Jan 10, 2013, at 7:42 PM, Daniel Molkentin <danimo at owncloud.com> wrote:
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>>>>>> This also me ans 2 GB are a limit for owncloud on Windows, since the official binary packages are 32bit...
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>>>>> In my opinion owncloud should emit a big fat warning when running on 32bit PHP and pre-emptively reject anything beyond 2 GB.
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>>>>> Evert
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>>>> Agreed. If there is no way to fix it which would be better of course ;-)
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>>> 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?
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> The difference is that on 64bit PHP PHP_INT_MAX is 9223372036854775807, which is 8192 petabytes.
Ok, yes. I am too much in the C/C++ world where that would not be an int 
any more ;-)

To confirm, I tested this morning on a 32 installation of ownCloud 
4.5.5: Upload of a 4.3 GB file via webdav client results in a 2,0 GB 
file on the cloud. No error message.

>> 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...
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>> Actually large files work with ownCloud, I tested with 4.3 GB. Can be uploaded and is displayed correctly in WI.
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> That's surprising at least..
Well, that was on a 64 bit installation.

Klaas