[Samba] Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server -- SOLVED (kind of...)

2009-01-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
This sounds to me like the dir_index option was applied to a file system that didn't originally have it and an fsck -Df wasn't run at the time. That may well be the most relevant information given here! I will *certainly* give it a try. Thank you! -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the

[Samba] Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server -- SOLVED (kind of...)

2009-01-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
Did you consider sharing a directory from the machine running distiller and cifs-mounting it on the linux side to get ntfs behavior? That is out of question. The Windows machines are graphic workstations which are not all connected all the time and the Distiller service is essential to the

[Samba] Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server -- SOLVED (kind of...)

2009-01-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
I was under the impression that the Distiller app was running under Windows. If it isn't, it doesn't make much sense for it to expect NTFS filesystem semantics. Yes, Distiller is running under Windows. When pages start to get ready, one of the graphic operators opens Distiller on

Re: [Samba] Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server -- SOLVED (kind of...)

2009-01-23 Thread Miguel Medalha
I based my speculation on some observations I had made on some of my own systems when I implemented dir_index. It so happens that, on that system at least, a find /foo -print returns the filenames in sorted order. Unfortunately, it isn't true on another system that I just checked. So now I

Re: [Samba] Re: [CentOS] OT? File order on CentOS/Samba server -- SOLVED (kind of...)

2009-01-23 Thread Steve Thompson
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Miguel Medalha wrote: This sounds to me like the dir_index option was applied to a file system that didn't originally have it and an fsck -Df wasn't run at the time. That may well be the most relevant information given here! I will *certainly* give it a try. I based