[linux-cifs-client] Latency after a cifs mount

[Jeff Layton]

On Fri, 15 May 2009 03:38:16 +0000
Benjamin Pavie <benjamin.pavie at utsouthwestern.edu> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have a problem of latency after mounting my partion using cifs :
> 
> sudo mount -t cifs //my.server.com/lab_share /home/bpavie/lab_share -o
> credentials=/etc/samba/user,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,uid=bpavie
> 
> When I run the following bash script,
> #!/bin/bash
> mkdir /home/bpavie/lab_share/test2
> mkdir /home/bpavie/lab_share/test2/subTest
> touch /home/bpavie/lab_share/test2/subTest/toto.txt
> 
> I have the following output :
> bpavie at computer:~$ ./test.sh 
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/bpavie/lab_share/test2/subTest':
> Permission denied
> touch: cannot touch `/home/bpavie/lab_share/test2/subTest/toto.txt':
> Permission denied
> 
> So the first directory is created but not the sub-directory.
> When I add a sleep between the creation of the directory test2 and the
> subdirectory subTest, the first error vanish.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> mkdir /home/bpavie/lab_share/test2
> sleep 1
> mkdir /home/bpavie/lab_share/test2/subTest
> touch /home/bpavie/lab_share/test2/subTest/toto.txt
> 
> bpavie at computer:~$ ./test.sh 
> touch: cannot touch `/home/bpavie/lab_share/test2/subTest/toto.txt':
> Permission denied
> 
> 
> It seems there is a kind of delay, how to fix that ?
> 

What kernel are you using?

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>