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

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Steve Williams wrote:

> 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.

I spoke with Jeremy about it.  He believes that it is a
problem with  the way we implement resume keys now.  Apparently
on;y win9x uses resume keys these days in the findfirst/findnext
sequence.  WinNT and later uses resume by name.

It's on the list to be fixed in 3.0.21.  But a little too
invasive for the looming 3.0.20 release later the week.





cheers, jerry
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