[Samba] zero byte files

[Ed Siefker]

Should I just send this report to the Bugzilla then?
I was hoping someone could tell me where I could
find informative logs or something, so I could
write a better bug report.

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Ed Siefker <ebs15242 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am experiencing data loss on a CIFS share
> with Samba 3.6.3.  I am running Debian Sid
> on x86.   I mount the share with the following
> line in my fstab:
>
> //server/share  /mnt/share      cifs
>  auto,users,rw,gid=50,dir_mode=0775,file_mode=0777,domain=DOMAIN,credentials=/root/share.credentials
>
>
> The user in the credential file is in the proper domain.
> GID 50 is "staff", which my user is a member of.
> I can read and write to the share, but sometimes I
> lose data.  I can't figure out any pattern.
>
> Just now, I downloaded a 2.4GB TAR file.  It worked
> perfectly.  Then I go to extract the TAR, and about
> 25% of them are zero bytes.
>
> $ du -hsc *
> 2.4G    GSE14333_RAW.tar
> 0       GSM358341.CEL.gz
> 8.9M    GSM358342.CEL.gz
> 9.0M    GSM358343.CEL.gz
> 8.6M    GSM358344.CEL.gz
> 0       GSM358345.CEL.gz
> 0       GSM358346.CEL.gz
> 8.7M    GSM358347.CEL.gz
> 8.9M    GSM358348.CEL.gz
> 0       GSM358349.CEL.gz
> 8.4M    GSM358350.CEL.gz
> 8.7M    GSM358351.CEL.gz
>
>
> All these files should be 7-9M in size.  TAR did not complain
> at all when I untarred the files. It exited normally. I looked
> in 'dmesg' and /var/log/samba for any errors, and didn't
> find anything informative.
>
> So, any thoughts as to what's going on? Random files are
> simply missing for no apparent reason whatsoever. Can I provide
> more information that will be useful?  This is very disconcerting,
> I'm lucky I was working with publically available files when
> I discovered it.
>