[Samba] file corruption with write cache

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Jul 12 20:24:56 GMT 2004


On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 10:17:57PM +0200, Holger Krull wrote:
> Hello,
> FYI, i noticed that using
> write cache size = 131072
> on a share, leads to corrupted files from some applications. Only one 
> client is accessing the file.
> In particular with coreldraw this can be reproduced.

Can you tell me exactly how you reproduce this ? I need to have a simple
way to see this in order to track it down. In the meantime I suggest
you remove the write cache line - modern UNIXes don't need it, it was
mainly added for slow Solaris filesystems.

Jeremy.


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