SMB.CONF reload stops SMB Client-Server I/O activities(File Copying) in Linux

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Dec 27 11:31:02 GMT 2003


On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 22:00, nandkumar l mane wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 Andrew Bartlett wrote :
> >On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 02:57, nandkumar l mane wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I was trying to create a CIFS share in Linux because of which I
> > > ended up modifying the SMB.CONF file.I noticed that while
> > > reloading SMB.CONF file the I/O activities of SMB Server get
> > > stopped(File copying in this case) for other clients.
> >
> >I assume you mean they are paused, while it reloads, resuming shortly
> >thereafter?
> >
> > > Currently I am using samba-3.0.1 on my Linux-2.4.20-8.
> > > Here's the command which I'm trying to reload SMB.CONF:
> > > smbcontrol smbd reload-config
> >
> >Samba is single-threaded, and you asked every samba process to reload
> >it's configuration.  This looks perfectly normal.
> >
> >What in your smb.conf is so big that reading and processing this file
> >causes a noticeable delay?
> >
> >Andrew Bartlett
> >
> >--
> >Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
> >Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
> >Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
> >http://samba.org     http://build.samba.org     http://hawkerc.net
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am copying one file from my client to smb server.But when I reload SMB.CONF using 'service smb restart' ,copying process get stopped and it gives error as 
> cannot copy : the specified network is not available.
> I want to reload my SMB.CONF file without stopping that copying process.plz give me another way to load SMB.CONF.

Simply send all the processes a kill -HUP.  This is what the smbcontrol
message effectively does.  If you kill off the daemons (service smb
restart) then naturally, the clients will be upset.

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
http://samba.org     http://build.samba.org     http://hawkerc.net
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