On 6/29/07, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 6/29/07, Wojtek.Pilorz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fedora6, I have noted the folowing problems when using cifs to connect to
> NT shares:
>
> - cp -vip does not copy mtime; tar x does copy mtime
> (it seems setting modtime by fname does work, setting by handle does not)
> - when there is a share mounted from a NT/2000 server which is not used for
long time
> mounting another share from the same servers reliably fails ;
> touching the already mounted share (ls is OK) allows the mount so succeed.
> - when using vim to edit a file on the share and trying to write it, vim often
> says that the file has been modified in the meantime
> - perhaps most annoying: somtimes modifying a file located on NT 4
Workstation share with vim,
> it becomes permanently unavailable until NT is rebooted.
> It happens rarely, I do not know how to trigger it on demand.
>
> Those problems did not happen when using smbfs from CentOS 4.4.
>
> I am wondering if CentOS 5 has these problems?
> Anyone using cifs from CentOS 5 to access NT-exported share, would care to
comment?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wojtek
I believe some of the issues you mentioned have been addressed in
newer versions of cifs. For example, the vim/timestamp problem was
reported and has been fixed in recent kernels. See:
http://lists.samba.org/archive/linux-cifs-client/2007-June/002014.html
However the CentOS kernel (2.6.18) uses cifs 1.45 and the current FC6
kernel (2.6.20) probably has cifs 1.47. Unless upstream/RH backports
patches in their kernel, CentOS will not get them. One could compile
cifs.ko from the source as a possible solution. If the problem is a
severe one, it will be worth doing it.
Akemi
It looks like the upstream is going to update the cifs module to
version 1.48 in the next release, RHEL 5.1. I am having some problem
getting their test kernel to work, but at least it will get a newer
(but not the latest) version of cifs.
Akemi
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