[Samba] hosting library (ie. PVCS) on Samba

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 04:43:40PM -0400, webster at lexmark.com wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> Indeed, the smbd process is unkillable via kill -9 .
> Also, all Samba clients are out-to-lunch at this point.
> 
> Here are the last few lines from strace(the file is named 'afile'):
> stat64("afile", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=320, ...}) = 0
> getxattr("afile", "user.DOSATTRIB", 0xbfffb220, 256) = 4
> getxattr("afile", "user.DOSATTRIB", 0xbfffb220, 256) = 4
> stat64("afile", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=320, ...}) = 0
> getxattr("afile", "system.posix_acl_access", 0xbfffaff0, 132) = -1 ENODATA 
> (No data available)
> stat64("afile", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0664, st_size=320, ...}) = 0
> getxattr("afile", "user.DOSATTRIB", 0xbfffb070, 256) = 4
> setxattr("afile", "user.DOSATTRIB", 0xbfffb1c0, 4,
> 
> The owner of the file can flip the 'read-only' bit on & off all day.
> But, when another user tries it(on or off), I get the aforementioned 
> 'hang.'
> 
> SuSE 9.1 uses reiserfs by default, with EAs & ACLs enabled.
> That is what I'm using.

Looks like a kernel bug with reiserfs and EA's. Can you test
with another EA supporting filesystem and see if the same
problem occurs ?

Jeremy.