[linux-cifs-client] error while writing large file to Windows share

[Noah Romer]

On Saturday 27 October 2007, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'd highly recommend updating the kernel and seeing if you're still
> having problems. 2.6.18-ish kernels are pretty ancient by now and with
> Fedora we don't generally backport fixes.
> 
> There's also a very recent patch that went in to fix a long-standing
> memory corruption bug with CIFS when kernel_recvmsg returns -EAGAIN.
> You'll most definitely want that as well, but I don't think that's made
> it into any Fedora kernels yet -- I'll see if I can get that included
> in the next set of builds...

First, in case you didn't notice from the kernel and samba versions, I typo-ed 
the Fedora Core release, it's FC5 not FC6. We're in the process of 
developing/testing a FC5->FC6 transition. I'll keep an eye out for 
the -EAGAIN patch in the FC kernels, we'll definitely want that. We've got a 
rather time consuming kernel validation process we have to go through. With 
boxes residing at remote locations that we often don't have shell/ssh access 
to, we can't afford to have kernel problems (there's a large number of 
userland subsystems that we can work around remotely, if we have to, but 
kernel oopses and debugging are another thing all together).

Thanks for the info/suggestions, gives us a place to work from.
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Noah Romer <nromer at arcmailtech.com>
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