[Samba] delete file being transferred

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 10:14:04PM -0400, Chaojie.Xiao at emc.com wrote:
> Hi ,all
> 
>                 the situation is that:  when I upload a big file to share folder in samba and during the transmission I want to make snapshot for the share folder.
> 
>                 So I have to stop the samba service to make the snapshot. After I stop samba service, the transmission is stopped but the file that is not transferred completely is still in the share folder.
> 
>                 so I want to know how to delete the file that is not transferred completely after I stop the transmission to make snapshot.

What exactly are you trying to achieve ? What kind of snapshots
are you using, and why do you have to stop Samba to do this ?

Sounds like you might need a custom VFS module to communicate
with your snapshot service ?

Jeremy.