Hello, I believe I have discovered a bug within smbfs that only shows up when the remote filesystem contains millions of files.
When accessing a filesystem with a count in excess of 1.9 million files, I have noticed that the files all exist, but when attempting to read them results in a read of 0 bytes. In other words, smbfs believes that the file size is 0 bytes. If I use the ttl=<very large number, like 100,000,000> option when mounting the file system then I can access the files IF and ONLY IF I go into the target directory and do a directory listing first. The application attempting to access the file directly still results in a 0 byte read if I do not perform the manual directory listing first. I have also noticed that the UNIX find command seems to be enough to allow the reads to work for the proper file size. Also, if I use a smaller ttl value, then the reads only work before the ttl expires. If you have a work-around (even modifying the kernel code and re-compiling) for this, I would appreciate your letting me know what it is. Otherwise, I hope this will help you to fix this bug in future releases of smbfs, even though it is probably only rarely a problem. Also, if I have sent this to the wrong e-mail address, would you either forward this appropriately or at least let me know that this is the wrong one, so that I may continue attempting to report this to the appropriate authority. Anyway, thanks for your help. Jim -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
