Re: Problems with CVS on CIFS since kernel 2.6.30

[Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org>]

On 08/02/2010 07:28 PM, Jon Bramley wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm experiencing a problem with the linux CIFS client which is
> preventing me from using any kernel past 2.6.29, I've been�banging�my
> head against this one for some months now, so thought it about time to
> ask some experts. I'm running Gentoo linux on a 32 bit machine.
> 
> When connecting to our cifs share on any kernel I've tried since
> 2.6.29 (30, 31, 32, 33 and 34) I cannot use CVS on the share, as I get
> the following error:
> 
> 515 14:41 $ cvs update
> cvs [update aborted]: cannot get working directory: No such file or directory
> 
> Here is the bottom part of�an strace of the above command:
> http://paste.org/pastebin/view/21095
> 
> dmesg always seems to report the following, upon mount, on all kernels
> past 2.6.29, which I'm guessing is related:
> 
> �CIFS VFS: server 10.194.0.106 of type Samba 3.0.28a returned
> unexpected error on SMB posix open, disabling posix open support.
> Check if server update available.
> �CIFS VFS: Autodisabling the use of server inode numbers on
> \\shared.orbis\shared. This server doesn't seem to support them
> properly. Hardlinks will not be recognized on this mount. Consider
> mounting with the "noserverino" option to silence this message.
> 
> I've tried mounting the share using the noserverino option, which

See options serverino, noserverino and section inode numbers in 'man
mount.cifs' for additional information regarding this error.

Is there a hardlink involved?

> indeed does get rid of the second of those lines in dmesg, but doesn't
> fix the problem. Updating the server is not really an option (unless I
> can prove very good reason) since this is my work server. One slightly

The samba version you are using seem to be quite old.. Does better POSIX
support/conformance sound like a good enough reason..?

> strange thing, is that some of my colleagues run Ubuntu 10.04, which
> uses the 2.6.32 kernel, and they can use the share without problem.

What is the server version in this case?


Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman