I am using standard builds of CentOS 5.4 and Samba 3.5.2. Inotify is in the kernel by default
Apparently the smb.conf setting "fam change notify = yes" represents the default value gam_server is running Is there something I have to "do", which is not done by default? -----Original Message----- From: John Drescher [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 11:46 AM To: Darwin, Samuel Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Samba] non-windows behavior of samba On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Darwin, Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a vendor who is going to install an application server, and it > requires samba to behave as much like windows as possible. There is a > particular case they are complaining about. > > > 1. Run samba on redhat server > 2. Map a drive from windows. Let's say the Z: drive > 3. Run a script to open and continuously modify a file on the samba > share > 4. Observe the samba share in Windows Explorer > > You will see that the file size does not get updated until you hit > "refresh". > In a pure windows, environment, the filesize will be modified every few > seconds. So, samba is apparently not alerting the windows client that > the filesize has changed. Is this a configurable setting? Can this be > fixed? > > Here is an example perl script to run on the client side: > > > > open FILE, ">", "Z:/test.txt"; > > > > while (1) { > > print FILE > "jkasdklfjaskldfjaskl;dfjakl;sdfgjaklfghjkadfghajklsasdfjklasjdflkasjdfk > lajsdfklajsdfl"; > > print FILE > "jkasdklfjaskldfjaskl;dfjakl;sdfgjaklfghjkadfghajklsasdfjklasjdflkasjdfk > lajsdfklajsdfl"; > > print FILE > "jkasdklfjaskldfjaskl;dfjakl;sdfgjaklfghjkadfghajklsasdfjklasjdflkasjdfk > lajsdfklajsdfl"; > > } > > > > print "sleeping\n"; > > sleep 1; > > } > > > I believe you need fam support compiled into samba and inotify support in your kernel. John -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
