2012/10/22 Volker Lendecke <[email protected]> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 03:25:29PM +0200, Pierre Evenou wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > We are trying to export RozoFS (a scale out nas, see www.rozofs.org) > with > > Samba to windows clients, but we're facing a strange behavior. > > > > While every thing sounds good, windows 7 explorer fails to delete > > directories recursively. > > > > We create a directories foo/bar on the share, if we suppress foo with the > > explorer, bar is suppressed but not foo (do it twice and you're done), on > > the other hand in Windows CMD, rmdir /S foo works perfectly (as with > linux > > and OS X (10.5 and 10.6 at least) clients). > > > > The test has been done with Samba 3.5.6 (debian squeeze) and 3.6.6 > (debian > > wheezy). smbd logs ant tracing smbd with strace gives almost the same for > > Explorer and CMD. > > > > Any idea will be really helpfull. > > It probably comes down to compare the log.smbd and strace > from the rozofs share to what the same smbd shows on an > ext4 mount. Samba might have subtle assumptions about file > system behaviour that rozofs does not exactly the same way > that ext4 does. > > With best regards, > > Volker Lendecke > > -- > SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen > phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 > AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen > http://www.sernet.de, mailto:[email protected] >
Thanks for the reply, I'll have a try to compare with ext4, as you said Samba should do assumptions about underlying file system. I guess it also does assumptions about clients since the behaviour is different between cmd line or explorer. Pierre Evenou Best regards. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
