Problems with CVS on CIFS since kernel 2.6.30

2010-08-02 Thread Jon Bramley
Hi all, I'm experiencing a problem with the linux CIFS client which is preventing me from using any kernel past 2.6.29, I've been banging my head against this one for some months now, so thought it about time to ask some experts. I'm running Gentoo linux on a 32 bit machine. When connecting to

Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6]

2010-08-02 Thread Jeff Layton
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:09:49 -0400 Greg Freemyer greg.freem...@gmail.com wrote: Furthermore, I'll go ahead and propose the following (simple) semantics: 1) birthtime is initialized to the current time when a new inode is created 2) it's settable via the xattr to an arbitrary value

Re: Problems with CVS on CIFS since kernel 2.6.30

2010-08-02 Thread Suresh Jayaraman
On 08/02/2010 07:28 PM, Jon Bramley wrote: Hi all, I'm experiencing a problem with the linux CIFS client which is preventing me from using any kernel past 2.6.29, I've been�banging�my head against this one for some months now, so thought it about time to ask some experts. I'm running Gentoo

Re: Problems with CVS on CIFS since kernel 2.6.30

2010-08-02 Thread Jon Bramley
Hi Suresh, Firstly, thanks for responding. See options serverino, noserverino and section inode numbers in 'man mount.cifs' for additional information regarding this error. I've read the man pages and understand that noserverino will break hardlinks, but it doesn't work with or without this

Re: Problems with CVS on CIFS since kernel 2.6.30

2010-08-02 Thread Suresh Jayaraman
On 08/02/2010 08:38 PM, Jon Bramley wrote: The samba version you are using seem to be quite old.. Does better POSIX support/conformance sound like a good enough reason..? I doubt it. The problem I have is that it is working fine for Ubuntu users (which is the vast majority) so they will

Re: Problems with CVS on CIFS since kernel 2.6.30

2010-08-02 Thread Jon Bramley
On 2 August 2010 16:33, Suresh Jayaraman sjayara...@suse.de wrote: On 08/02/2010 08:38 PM, Jon Bramley wrote: The samba version you are using seem to be quite old.. Does better POSIX support/conformance sound like a good enough reason..? I doubt it. The problem I have is that it is working

Re: Problems with CVS on CIFS since kernel 2.6.30

2010-08-02 Thread Jeff Layton
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 16:56:10 +0100 Jon Bramley bramm...@gmail.com wrote: Just checked on a colleagues machine, and uname -r reports 2.6.32-24-generic Also checked the dmesg on the Ubuntu 10.04 box: [ 964.362027] CIFS VFS: Autodisabling the use of server inode numbers on

Re: 2.6.36 merge plans

2010-08-02 Thread Jeff Layton
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:19:29 -0500 Steve French smfre...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Jeff Layton jlay...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:55:58 -0500 Steve French smfre...@gmail.com wrote: For   cifs: use CreationTime like an i_generation field Seems like a

Re: 2.6.36 merge plans

2010-08-02 Thread Suresh Jayaraman
On 08/03/2010 03:44 AM, Steve French wrote: On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Jeff Layton jlay...@redhat.com wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:19:29 -0500 Steve French smfre...@gmail.com wrote: I had no problem with the last patch in your tree, but wanted to test the one before it (the creation

[PATCH 2.6.32/stable] CIFS: Remove __exit mark from cifs_exit_dns_resolver()

2010-08-02 Thread Michael Neuling
From: David Howells dhowe...@redhat.com commit 51c20fcced5badee0e2021c6c89f44aa3cbd72aa CIFS: Remove __exit mark from cifs_exit_dns_resolver() Remove the __exit mark from cifs_exit_dns_resolver() as it's called by the module init routine in case of error, and so may have been discarded during

[PATCH 2.6.32/stable] CIFS: Remove __exit mark from cifs_init_dns_resolver() header

2010-08-02 Thread Michael Neuling
An allmodconfig compile on ppc64 with 2.6.32.17 currently gives this error fs/cifs/dns_resolve.h:27: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__' before 'cifs_init_dns_resolver' This removes the __init from cifs_init_dns_resolver() Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling mi...@neuling.org