[Samba] vfs_gpfs module errors

[Bob Cregan]

Hi
         I'm encountering an error with some of my Windows clients when 
using CTDB and samba to access a GPFS hosted share. We see the following 
error all the time.

[2011/03/14 12:31:16.549084,  1] modules/vfs_gpfs.c:1099(vfs_gpfs_ntimes)
   vfs_gpfs_ntimes: set GPFS ntimes failed -1

The copy continues but is slow. All the timestamps seem reasonable for 
the data copied.


The GPFS version is 3.3.0-9 and samba is 3.5.6 compiled from source with 
config line.

$ ./configure --with-ctdb=/usr/local/src/ctdb --with-cluster-support 
--enable-pie=no --with-quotas --with-ads 
--with-static-modules=pdb_ldap,pdb_smbpasswd,pdb_tdbsam,rpc_lsarpc,rpc_winreg,rpc_initshutdown,rpc_dssetup,rpc_wkssvc,rpc_svcctl2,rpc_ntsvcs2,rc_netlogon,rpc_netdfs,rpc_srvsvc,rpc_spoolss,rpc_eventlog2,rpc_samr,idmap_tdb,idmap_passdb,idmap_nss,idmap_tdb2,nss_info_template,auth_sam,auth_unix,auth_winbind,auth_server,auth_domain,auth_builtin,vfs_default 
--prefix=/usr/local/samba-3.5.6

The gpfs module exists:

  ls -l /usr/local/samba-3.5.6/lib/vfs/gpfs.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 58312 Jan 31 17:22 
/usr/local/samba-3.5.6/lib/vfs/gpfs.so


The global section has

  private dir = /RDSF_REPL/gpfs_admin/cifs_state/
         clustering = yes
         idmap backend = tdb2
         fileid:mapping = fsname
         vfs objects = gpfs fileid
         gpfs:sharemodes = No
         force unknown acl user = yes
         nfs4: mode = special
         nfs4: chown = yes
         nfs4: acedup = merge


I have tried the setup with the following in the shares, and also with 
it absent. It seems to make no difference.


  vfs objects = gpfs fileid


Has anyone come across this. I only see it for some clients. I have no 
direct control or access to the clients and so debug infor from them is 
a little difficult.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

Bob

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Bob Cregan
Senior Storage Systems Administrator
ACRC
Bristol University
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