[linux-cifs-client] CIFS: permission denied when create a file in a large size, directory.

Steve French (smfltc) smfltc at us.ibm.com
Sat Nov 25 16:51:56 GMT 2006


>I mounted a remote Windows directory in Redhat AS 4 server through CIFS.
>The Windows directory's size is 1TB, and it has several subdirectories.
>There are two subdirectories including a lot of folders and files
>because the system creates folders everyday. So far one's size is 25GB,
>and another is 33G.
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>I cannot create a file in these two large directories due to permission
>denied, while I can create a file in other directories. There are 123GB
>left in the remote directory, and everything worked well before last
>week.
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>I wonder if why I cannot write in those directories. Are there size
>limitation or maximum directories for CIFS.
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Is this FC5 or FC6?  One of their upgrades (now fixed) changed the 
blocksize accidently which affected
cifs more than most.  It would fail for directories with more than about 
120 files.  It has since been fixed
in a newer FC5/FC6 update.


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