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. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
