Filed CR 6801332 Intermittent file change notification Alan
On 02/04/09 08:58, Ross Smith wrote: > Hi guys, > > Well, it's been a while but I've just had another example of this happen. > > This time it was on a snv_106 build, and the time is synchronised > perfectly with the domain (I have ntpdate running as a cron job every > 5 minutes, and checked it manually when this happened). > > I had just moved a whole bunch of files using cut & paste in windows > explorer. When the move operation finished, the original folder was > still visible until I hit F5 to manually refresh the display. > > I had two explorer windows open at the time. The new files had all > appeared in the second window, but the main folder I was moving had > not been removed from the other window. > > I've never seen explorer need refreshing from a windows server, and it > even works fine in Solaris the majority of the time, but there's > definitely an intermittent bug of some kind affecting the file change > notifications. > > In fact, now I'm writing this, if I leave these two folders open, I'm > getting problems with file change notification in one, but the other > works perfectly. > > In the window with problems, if I right-click to create a new folder, > I get exactly the same effect as before - nothing appears. After I > hit F5, I can see the folder and rename it, but the rename doesn't > show up either until I hit F5 again. > > However, in the second window, creating new folders works perfectly. > > I get the same effect moving files. They appear automatically in one > window, but don't disappear from the other. > > If I close the first window down, and open a new explorer window to > the same location, it works perfectly in both windows. > > So whatever this is, it's intermittent in how it starts, but > persistent once the problem has occurred, and it's specific to an > individual instance of windows explorer. > > Ross > > > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Brent Jones <br...@servuhome.net> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:30 AM, Ross Smith <myxi...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Well, it's repeatable, but I've no idea how lol. >>> >>> Just had exactly the same happen today after doing a lot of testing on >>> the server, but despite spending another hour on it, I can't reproduce >>> the problem. >>> >>> These machines are suffering from the VMware clock skew issue, so it >>> might be related to that. Probably safe to ignore this for now and >>> I'll raise this again if I ever find what's actually causing it. >>> >>> Ross >>> >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Ross Smith <myxi...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>>> Hey guys, >>>> >>>> It looks like you're right, it's working perfectly every time now. >>>> >>>> I did the original testing on my own XP SP3 workstation, but I've just >>>> gone and repeated the test on a whole bunch of machines (SP2 and SP3), >>>> and it worked fine on all of them, and also now works fine on the >>>> original workstation. >>>> >>>> I have been doing a lot of testing on this pool (disconnecting iscsi >>>> drives and working in degraded mode to test recovery), which has been >>>> causing a few CIFS errors as things timeout. I'll see if I can get it >>>> to reproduce this problem. >>>> >>>> Ross >>>> >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:04 PM, Afshin Salek <afshin.ardak...@sun.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Ross, >>>>>> >>>>>> What Windows OS are you using? >>>>>> Have you tried different Windows systems to see if the problem still >>>>>> occurs? >>>>>> >>>>>> Afshin >>>>>> >>>>>> Alan M Wright wrote: >>>>>>> On 12/03/08 10:42, Alan M Wright wrote: >>>>>>>> On 12/03/08 01:43, Ross wrote: >>>>>>>>> I'm not sure what's causing this, but I'm finding that the Solaris >>>>>>>>> CIFS >>>>>>>>> shares don't update automatically like windows shares do. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> A couple of examples: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> If I right-click the folder and create a new file: >>>>>>>>> - In windows, the new file appears, is selected, and I can simply type >>>>>>>>> the name. When I press enter it's renamed and appears in the window. >>>>>>>>> - On a solaris share, no file appears until I manually refresh. I >>>>>>>>> then >>>>>>>>> have to select the file manually and rename it. However, after >>>>>>>>> renaming it >>>>>>>>> the file still appears with the old name until I hit refresh again. >>>>>>>>> If I >>>>>>>>> try to delete the renamed file before hitting refresh I get an error >>>>>>>>> "Cannot >>>>>>>>> delete file: Cannot read from source file or disk." >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Similarly, if I drag a file into a Solaris share, the file does not >>>>>>>>> appear until I hit F5 to refresh the window. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> This will be a particular problem if we roll this out as Windows >>>>>>>>> doesn't >>>>>>>>> have a refresh button in its explorer windows, and our users will >>>>>>>>> almost >>>>>>>>> certainly not understand why their new files don't appear. >>>>>>>> That sound strange. We'll have a look at it. >>>>>>> Ross, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Our FVT team just tried that out and reported that it works as expected. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Alan >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> cifs-discuss mailing list >>>>>>> cifs-discuss@opensolaris.org >>>>>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss >>> _______________________________________________ >>> cifs-discuss mailing list >>> cifs-discuss@opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss >>> >> I think this issue is very time related, I set the time wrong on >> purpose on the CIFS server, and I saw this issue very frequently on >> CIFS clients. >> Synced the clock again to NTP, and haven't been able to reproduce it >> again; however even with the time grossly incorrect, the issue was >> still intermittent. >> >> I'll post again if I see the issue with correct time. >> >> -- >> Brent Jones >> br...@servuhome.net >> _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list cifs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
