> From: Jeremy Allison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Samba] samba: problem in copying directories with many files > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 05:48:19PM -0500, Mitch Crane wrote: > > > > If you are mounting a share from your XP machine then yes, it's a known > > problem. Though I don't recall anyone from the samba team actually > > acknowledging it, I have the problem and I have seen several other > reports > > of this problem. > > Not a known problem to us :-). This is the first I've seen > of it. Do you have a reproducible test case for this ?
That's why I added that no one from the samba team had acknowledged it--I wasn't sure you guys were aware of it, just that some people were. I only joined the samba list about 2 weeks ago (mainly in search of a solution for this problem) yet I've seen four reports of this problem (including this one and mine) or something similar. My post: <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&safe=off&selm=1 9W2K-6UJ-11%40gated-at.bofh.it> Seems to be the same issue: <http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&safe=off&selm=1 b1Ws-4Sl-13%40gated-at.bofh.it> Possibly related: <http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%5BSamba%5D+Issues+with+SMBFS&hl=en&lr=&i e=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&safe=off&selm=19Dtg-6cT-23%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=1> Also, searching Google reveals other reports of the same or similar issues (some fairly old). > If so I'll commit to get it fixed for 3.0.2 final - but if > it's a "only happens sometimes" kind of thing it will take > longer and probably not make 3.0.2. I can reproduce it on my machine. I only have the one Linux box and one Windows box, but this problem has persisted for months while I've gone from Redhat 9 to SuSE 9, through various kernel versions (all 2.4.*) and a complete reinstall on the Windows side. (I'm running 3.0.1 now, btw, though I original discovered the issue in 2.2.x) It seems to happen fairly consistently, though it's worse at times than others. The more files in a directory, the more likely it is to occur. > Send me details asap (I'm in Australia at the moment so will > be working funny timezones). I filed a bug report which details some of my findings: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=939 I hope it wasn't too rambling. Take this with several hundred grains of salt, but it seems to me, from looking at Ethereal captures, that it could actually be a problem on the Windows side. The XP box appear to, at random times, skip a directory item on FIND_NEXT2 commands. Also, Michael Pfl�ger reported that using CIFS solved the problem. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to do that (though I did try, always ending in a target server not found and error 22). -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
