[linux-cifs-client] Corrupted data on write to Windows 2003 Server

[Danny Sung]

Just giving you an update.  forcedirectio seems to be a lot more 
reliable than not having the option.  However, for a particularly large 
file (eg. 6GB) it aborts with a message saying "Host down".

Shirish S Pargaonkar wrote:
> Danny,
> 
> We have seen this problem and are working on it.  Sizes of the source 
> and destination files are same but
> md5sum would report different values.  I have seen this problem with 
> large files like 500MB+.
> I have seen some (page) ranges in destination file filled with NUL bytes.
> But we have observed this problem only with copying files to Windows 
> server and not with Samba server.
> 
> As a work-around, you may want to use option forcedirectio during mounts.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Shirish S. Pargaonkar
> 
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