Bug report (12=17020 TC029) SAMBA 2.2.8 release 20040908 - intermittent content loss

BG - Ben Armstrong BArmstrong at dymaxion.ca
Fri Sep 24 13:45:33 GMT 2004


On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 10:40 -0300, BG - Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > I am still trying to get familiar with this code, but I am finding 
> > references to special handling if SAMBA detects that it is a VMS text file.
> > 
> > Any VMS file that is not a stream or a fixed record size file may get 
> > corrupted by an out-of-order transfer through SAMBA as the seek() 
> > function will not go to the correct place on a write.
> 
> OK, so far this is consistent with our test results.  We'll let you know
> if we discover corruption in other file types, e.g. Stream or Stream-LF
> files.

Oops, I misread that as "seek() ... on a read", but you said "on a
write".  Since we're seeing the corruption before any output is written,
your observations are *not* consistent with our test results.  So it
remains a puzzle.

Ben



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