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

[Jeremy Allison]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 05:26:36PM -0500, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Steve Williams wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> 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.

Although to confirm it I'd like to see a debug level 10 log
of one of your clients "looping" with a directory listing
against a 3.0.20 Samba server please.

Jeremy.