Samba, vfat and new kernels: Anyone able to solve the problem?

[Gianpaolo Cugola]

Thanks for your help. The one you described is exactly the workaround I am
using today, but as I said it is just a workaround :-)
I hope someone will be able to fix the problem at the kernel level (I know
this is a world based on personal, volunteer work, so I do not pretend
anythink, just hope someone will work on this, one of this days. I will do
personally if I had the skill and time :-)

Thanks again

Bye
  G.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Sully" <rcs at malibyte.net>
To: "Gianpaolo Cugola" <cugola at elet.polimi.it>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: Samba, vfat and new kernels: Anyone able to solve the problem?


>
> I had the same problem recently (using Samba with shared vfat
> partitions, and NFS-mounting vfat partitions over a network).
> This worked fine with 2.2.17 and earlier, but not with 2.2.18 and
> newer.  I did a lot of digging and wound up swapping e-mail with
> Alan Cox and others involved in the development of the NFS code.
> I was told that, yes, I was right, NFS doesn't work with vfat in
> the new kernels - the code was considered an incredible kluge
> and was removed.  So, I simply wound up moving all of the shared
> directories to ext2; I'm now using 2.4.1 with Samba and NFS and
> all works well.  In the case of one directory which needs to be
> on vfat also, I copy the contents from the ext2 euqivalent over
> to it a regular intervals as a cron job.
>
> Ciao - Bob
>
>
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Gianpaolo Cugola wrote:
>
> > This is my third mail in the last three months and still no-one has
> > answered, while I received some comments from other users about the fact
> > that the problem is known. So if you have any info on how to fix this,
> > please post a message :-)
>
> --
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