Re: [lustre-discuss] [Samba] Odd "File exists" behavior when copy-pasting many files to an SMB exported Lustre FS

2022-09-26 Thread Michael Weiser via lustre-discuss
Hello Jeremy, Hello Daniel, I've now opened bug 15186 where I tried to summarize the analysis and current state of discussion. > >The root of the problem seems to be an asymmetry in how Samba maps > >filesystem to Windows EAs and back. For SMB_INFO_SET_EA it's > > > >foo (Windows) ---> user.foo (

Re: [lustre-discuss] [Samba] Odd "File exists" behavior when copy-pasting many files to an SMB exported Lustre FS

2022-09-23 Thread Daniel Kobras
Hi Jeremy! Am 23.09.22 um 18:42 schrieb Jeremy Allison: > In practice this has never been an issue. It's only an issue > now due to the strange EA behavior. Once we have a vfs_lustre > module in place it will go back to not being an issue :-). The root of the problem seems to be an asymmetry in h

Re: [lustre-discuss] [Samba] Odd "File exists" behavior when copy-pasting many files to an SMB exported Lustre FS

2022-09-22 Thread Andreas Dilger via lustre-discuss
On Sep 22, 2022, at 03:21, Michael Weiser via lustre-discuss mailto:lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org>> wrote: Hey Daniel! :) Hi Jeremy, Hi Bjoern, I'm cross-posting to the samba list again as I think this might be of interest there as well and to keep the threads together. That leaves the quest

Re: [lustre-discuss] [Samba] Odd "File exists" behavior when copy-pasting many files to an SMB exported Lustre FS

2022-09-22 Thread Michael Weiser via lustre-discuss
ing copy which at least in my mind would be preferable. [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes/ -- Thanks, Michael ____________________ From: Daniel Kobras Sent: 22 September 2022 15:53:23 To: Michael Weiser; Jeremy Allison Cc: lustre-discuss@lists.lustre.org;

Re: [lustre-discuss] [Samba] Odd "File exists" behavior when copy-pasting many files to an SMB exported Lustre FS

2022-09-22 Thread Daniel Kobras
Hi Micha, hi Jeremy! Am 22.09.22 um 11:21 schrieb Michael Weiser: > [from the docs]: >> If a client(s) will be mounted on several file systems, add the following >> line to /etc/xattr.conf > file to avoid problems when files are moved >> between the file systems: lustre.* skip" > > What exactl

Re: [lustre-discuss] [Samba] Odd "File exists" behavior when copy-pasting many files to an SMB exported Lustre FS

2022-09-22 Thread Michael Weiser via lustre-discuss
Hey Daniel! :) Hi Jeremy, Hi Bjoern, I'm cross-posting to the samba list again as I think this might be of interest there as well and to keep the threads together. > > That leaves the question, where that extended attribute user.lustre.lov is > > coming from. It > > appears that Lustre itself e

Re: [lustre-discuss] [Samba] Odd "File exists" behavior when copy-pasting many files to an SMB exported Lustre FS

2022-09-21 Thread Daniel Kobras
Hi Michael! Am 21.09.22 um 16:54 schrieb Michael Weiser via lustre-discuss: > That leaves the question, where that extended attribute user.lustre.lov is > coming from. It appears that Lustre itself exposes a number of extended > attributes for every file which reflect internal housekeeping data:

Re: [lustre-discuss] [Samba] Odd "File exists" behavior when copy-pasting many files to an SMB exported Lustre FS

2022-09-21 Thread Michael Weiser via lustre-discuss
Hello Jeremy, Hello Christian, Hi all, > >Resident wild-guy Christian here. In summary, I'm seeing an odd problem > >from both Windows Explorer and Mac Finder when copy-pasting a large batch > >of files to a Lustre-backed SMB share wherein the file manager appears to > >enumerate over all the file