smbclient disk space on volumes larger than 1 TB

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 07:34:18PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 10:01 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 08:35:39PM +0200, Guntram Blohm wrote:
> >> Sorry for the long delay. Turned out things are never as easy as
> >> they seem. The vanilla smbclient works great against a samba server,
> >> but NetApp servers don't behave well. Unfortunately, i don't have a
> >> true windows share that is larger than 1 TB to test against.
> > 
> > Another one where NetApp does not implement certain
> > infolevels or ways to do things that both Windows and Samba
> > servers do. My experience with NetApp has been that anything
> > not in their support matrix is really not supported. "Not
> > supported" as in "yes, it is indeed broken and we won't fix
> > it". Unfortunately to me it seems that any Linux client, be
> > it smbclient, be it cifsfs, is not in their client matrix.
> > So installations who have non-Windows clients should be very
> > cautious to install NetApp.
> > 
> > One hickup I've seen at a customer site was Tunderbird
> > running over cifsfs destroyed mailboxes because NetApp does
> > not support the way cifsfs uses to truncate files. Windows
> > does it, Samba does it, but NetApp does not.
> > 
> > Another one was where Linux cifsfs tried to enumerate EAs
> > and NetApp sent 39 bytes of garbage. 39 bytes is a typical
> > length for an error SMB packet, so we have triggered
> > *something* on the NetApp side, but the output seemed to be
> > random, uninitialized memory. cifsfs just dropped that
> > packet and eventually ran into a timeout for "ls", but
> > waiting 30 seconds for every file to show up is a less than
> > exciting experience.
> > 
> > These two ones are a while ago, so they might be fixed in
> > the meantime. But I would not count on NetApp to work
> > flawlessly with non-Windows clients.
> 
> At the university we use NetApp as an NFS backend to our Samba servers
> which works quite well...

Ok, that might be true. I was speaking about non-Windows
CIFS clients.

Volker

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