From: Gionatan Danti <g.danti-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>,
jmcd-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org,
Gionatan Danti <g.danti-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with Samba re-share of a CIFS mount
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:09:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FA676B.6070906@assyoma.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140211124536.5fdcb56f-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:50:45 +0100
> Gionatan Danti <g.danti-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> The rationale is that windows servers always send a NumberOfLinks value
> of '0' for directories. We have a hack in place that went in around a
> year ago to work around that for (arguably broken) applications that
> try to infer something about an inode that has a zero st_nlink value.
>
> There is no workaround. Either fix the application such that it doesn't
> care or patch the kernel. I'll cc Jim since he did a fair bit of
> looking at this several months ago.
>
> In truth though, resharing a cifs mount is probably not a great
> solution. It sounds like the kind of setup that's going to end up being
> fraught with cache coherency problems...
Ok, I understand now :)
Thank you very much, Jeff.
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2014-02-11 9:30 Problem with Samba re-share of a CIFS mount Gionatan Danti
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2014-02-11 15:33 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20140211103302.6d74b90d-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-11 15:50 ` Gionatan Danti
[not found] ` <52FA46D5.8020904-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-11 16:59 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5mvXh2A_LOm5y7BpgKS6bQhNGjEDR8CYn=K2CnMv01HQeQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-11 17:05 ` Gionatan Danti
2014-02-11 17:45 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20140211124536.5fdcb56f-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-11 18:01 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5mvQ590zaniv3cDuu+Do0N9TePasTaEFkrNSAdatTiaZ5Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-13 11:37 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20140213063738.1b345466-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-13 17:29 ` Gionatan Danti
[not found] ` <52FD0109.5030909-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-13 18:04 ` Steve French
[not found] ` <CAH2r5msMZsnC8hxh6=P=f_vsuB=DR_Hv9xyLUEZtG+WpzYU=Sg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14 10:27 ` Gionatan Danti
2014-02-13 19:40 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20140213144038.2101ea44-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14 2:14 ` Suresh Jayaraman
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2014-02-14 12:06 ` Jeff Layton
2014-02-14 10:25 ` Gionatan Danti
[not found] ` <52FDEF0D.8010708-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14 12:17 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20140214071724.725d8545-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14 14:10 ` Gionatan Danti
2014-02-14 12:08 ` Jeff Layton
[not found] ` <20140214070846.09904331-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14 14:05 ` Gionatan Danti
2014-02-11 18:09 ` Gionatan Danti [this message]
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