preallocated file size

[Maulik Desai]

Hi,

> 
> Terry McCoy wrote:
> > Hmmm...  I wonder how they handle incomplete file transfers, but
> >          that's a potential problem for another day :>)
> 
> 	I suspect they'll fail on the write to the intended end of
> 	file, allowing the copy program (in this case file manager,
> 	~= NT explorer) to stop quickly.  I fear that subsequent
> 	writes aren't checked...

A while back I had observed that Samba didn't seem to handle incomplete 
file transfers properly. When I used explorer to write a file on samba 
server (drag & drop) and canceled it before it was completely written, the 
(corrupt) file still existed in the directory instead of being deleted. It
appears that NT handles this correctly by deleting the file if it 
was canceled before completely written.

Can someone please verify this? if this is true, then this is a bug 
in Samba - right?

I'm using Samba 2.0.5a on RH Linux 6.0; client was NT 4.0 w/s.

thanks,
Maulik