[Samba] BUG: samba-3.0.14a & samba-3.0.20pre2 endless loop AIX 5.3 (jfs2) & Win98

[Steve Williams]

Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:

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>>Hi,
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>>I have replaced an older AIX system with a new one running AIX 5.3, all
>>the latest patches.  It is acting as a PDC (I think irrelevant).  The
>>old server was running AIX 4.3.2 with Samba 3.0.14a (upgraded from
>>2.0.7) , and was working 100% fine. I had the old server running 3.0.14a
>>for 6 weeks prior to the upgrade as part of my migration plan.
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>>There are Windows 98 boxes that connect to this server (workgroup), as
>>well as XP SP2 boxes that connect to the server (domain).  The shares
>>that I am having problems with are on IBM's "jfs2" filesystem.
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>>The XP boxes are working perfectly.
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>>The Windows 98 boxes work to read and save files.  HOWEVER... if one
>>"Explores" into one of the folders, Samba goes into an endless loop. 
>>The little flashlight in Windows 98 Explorer just keeps waving back and
>>forth.
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>>The behavior can be duplicated by going into a DOS prompt and doing a
>>"DIR" on the shared directory.  It is more obvious what is happening,
>>because the screen updates continuously.  It just scrolls forever.  It
>>gets to the end of the directory listing and starts again at the
>>top...looping forever.
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>>1.  AIX 4.3.2, jfs, samba-3.0.14a worked perfectly
>>2.  AIX 5.3, jfs2, samba-3.0.14a & samba-3.0.20pre2 have problem with 
>>Windows 98 computers
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>I can't reproduce this on ext3 with the current SAMBA_3_0 code.
>Is this a jfs2 only problem?
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>jerry
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Hi,

My "gut feeling" is that it is related to jfs2.  No concrete proof 
though.  This is the ONLY problem we encountered with the entire 
upgrade, and the only thing that we did "radically" different was use 
jfs2 rather than JFS.  The advantage we saw was that JFS2 can "shrink" 
the filesystems, which can be nice in a year or two when requirements 
change.

Did you do testing on AIX?  I was not aware that I could get an "ext3" 
fs on AIX.  If you are interested in persuing this further, I will try 
to set things up to do some troubleshooting...  I am remote to the 
location & will need to have someone work with me.. not a big deal, they 
have a good summer student... but does need some coordination.

Thanks,
Steve.