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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org>,
	David Howells via samba-technical
	<samba-technical@lists.samba.org>,
	Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>, Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>,
	linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com>
Subject: Re: Bug in Samba's implementation of FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES?
Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 07:21:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <476489.1716445261@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN05THRuP4_7FvOOrTxHcZXC4dWjjqStRLqS7G_iCAwU5MUNwQ@mail.gmail.com>

ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 May 2024 at 14:54, David Disseldorp <ddiss@samba.org> wrote:
> It might be best to just ignore tests that fail in this area. And just
> accept that some things, at best, is a best-effort approximation.
> (as long as dataloss does not happen, of course. That is never acceptable)
> At the end of the day it is a lot of guesswork and trying to fit a
> square peg (unpredictable ntfs behavior) into a round hole (linux vfs
> api).

The problem is that it essentially renders SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE unusable for
applications on cifs.  If there's more than one extent above the starting
position, they'll fail with EIO.  The only way to do it is to provide for a
sufficiently large buffer to accommodate however many extents that there are
(and there could be millions, in theory) in order to get just the first one.

David


  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-23  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-21 23:53 Bug in Samba's implementation of FSCTL_QUERY_ALLOCATED_RANGES? David Howells
2024-05-22  8:53 ` David Disseldorp
2024-05-22 10:36   ` David Howells
2024-05-23  4:54     ` David Disseldorp
2024-05-23  5:05       ` ronnie sahlberg
2024-05-23  6:21         ` David Howells [this message]
2024-05-23  6:28           ` ronnie sahlberg
2024-05-23  6:36             ` David Howells
2024-05-23 14:29               ` Tom Talpey
2024-05-23 15:28                 ` Paulo Alcantara
2024-05-23 22:49                   ` Jeremy Allison
2024-05-24  7:45                     ` Stefan Metzmacher
2024-08-22 22:26                     ` David Howells
2024-08-23 13:20                       ` David Disseldorp
2024-08-28 10:25                         ` David Howells
2024-08-28 10:55                           ` David Disseldorp
2024-08-28 11:52                             ` David Howells
2024-08-28 12:57                               ` David Disseldorp

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