Working on remote disk access.
Looking for some sort of workaround until the real cause is fixes.
Find if I run this on the terminal:
#!/bin/bash
bash -c "while true ; do ls /tmp/drives/* &> /dev/null ; sleep 10; done" &
It behaves reasonably well.
Couple problems.
Only way I can get to run at boot is via inittab.
Also even though using "&> /dev/null" it fills up the shell screen
with error messages.
Not really thrilled about putting in inittab, Any other way to start a
background precess?
Any way to get rid of the error messages?
Maybe something other than ls?
John
Gideon Romm wrote:
We are aware of this problem and are working to resolve it. The
problem boils down to this:
When the filesystem is first mounted, prior to accessing it, it is,
according to the filesystem on the thin client, a directory of size
zero. Evidently, any file/dir with size zero is presented by samba as
an empty file.
The best resolution would be to either:
1. Get supermount to access the drive upon mount, thereby generating
a nonzer directory size, or
2. Get Samba to report zero-size directories as directories that can
be accessed from the server
SIDE NOTE: One peculiar thing is that when viewing the file thru
Nautilus, a refresh of Nautilus can cause the file to be rendered as a
directory (evidently accessing the directory somehow via the share).
Nautilus uses the Gnome Virtual File System to browse the filesystem
rather than simply browsing the filesystem directly, so something it
is doing is alleviating the issue....
Also note that code has been added to the hotplug scripts to make sure
that this problem does not occur on USB drives.
We'll have it all sorted out in a jiffy... ;)
-Gideon
On Fri, 2005-04-29 at 08:13, Emiliano 'AlberT' Gabrielli wrote:
/On 12:40, venerdì 29 aprile 2005, Anders Bruun Olsen wrote:
Anybody know how to fix this such that it isn't necessary to do a local
listing of the disc content in order to be able to access it from the
server?
I have a similar problem too .. as I posted time ago, but nobody seems to know
about it ;-(/
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