[Samba] Directories recursive deletion problem

[Pierre Evenou]

2012/10/22 Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>

> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 03:25:29PM +0200, Pierre Evenou wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are trying  to export RozoFS (a scale out nas, see www.rozofs.org)
> with
> > Samba to windows clients, but we're facing a strange behavior.
> >
> > While every thing sounds good, windows 7 explorer fails to delete
> > directories recursively.
> >
> > We create a directories foo/bar on the share, if we suppress foo with the
> > explorer, bar is suppressed but not foo (do it twice and you're done), on
> > the other hand in Windows CMD, rmdir /S foo works perfectly (as with
> linux
> > and OS X (10.5 and 10.6 at least) clients).
> >
> > The test has been done with Samba 3.5.6 (debian squeeze) and 3.6.6
> (debian
> > wheezy). smbd logs ant tracing smbd with strace gives almost the same for
> > Explorer and CMD.
> >
> > Any idea will be really helpfull.
>
> It probably comes down to compare the log.smbd and strace
> from the rozofs share to what the same smbd shows on an
> ext4 mount. Samba might have subtle assumptions about file
> system behaviour that rozofs does not exactly the same way
> that ext4 does.
>
> With best regards,
>
> Volker Lendecke
>
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Thanks for the reply,

I'll have a try to compare with ext4, as you said Samba should do
assumptions about underlying file system.
I guess it also does assumptions about clients since the behaviour is
different between cmd line or explorer.

Pierre Evenou

Best regards.