Hello Steve/linux-cifs,
We have received a request to make the timeout in the cifs module
tunable.
I have gone through the code to understand timeouts in the cifs client.
http://sprabhu.blogspot.in/2015/08/investigation-into-effects-of-server
.html
The way to allow user settable timeout values i
On 10/19/2015 05:21 PM, Steve French wrote:
Could you verify this over SMB2 (vers=3.0) as well? It looks like it
should fail because cifs_all_info_to_fattr doesn't see the inode
attribute change and fill in the new inode number (IndexNuber). I am
suspicious that your patch is overkill (sends a
On 2015-10-19 16:20, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Austin S Hemmelgarn
wrote:
On 2015-10-19 13:33, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
Please spare me with all that nonsense. Compared to mount options,
filesystem feature flags in this case simplify things (you don't have
t
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Sachin Prabhu wrote:
> Hello Steve/linux-cifs,
>
> We have received a request to make the timeout in the cifs module
> tunable.
>
> I have gone through the code to understand timeouts in the cifs client.
> http://sprabhu.blogspot.in/2015/08/investigation-into-effec
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Ross Lagerwall
wrote:
> On 10/19/2015 05:21 PM, Steve French wrote:
>>
>> Could you verify this over SMB2 (vers=3.0) as well? It looks like it
>> should fail because cifs_all_info_to_fattr doesn't see the inode
>> attribute change and fill in the new inode number
On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Steve French wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Ross Lagerwall
> wrote:
>> On 10/19/2015 05:21 PM, Steve French wrote:
>>>
>>> Could you verify this over SMB2 (vers=3.0) as well? It looks like it
>>> should fail because cifs_all_info_to_fattr doesn't see
This reconnect discussion should probably be broadened to see how it
would change (the retry/timeout/reconnect) when we are tied into the
(samba, user space) Witness protocol client that Guenther and others
have been experimenting with. Perhaps ioctls down to cifs.ko from the
witness protocol clie