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

[Steve Williams]

Jeremy Allison wrote:

>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.
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>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.
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>Jeremy.
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Hi,

That's cool, I will try to get this for you tomorrow morning.  

How would you like me to get this to you?

Cheers,
Steve Williams