From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932292AbVKUNCr (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:02:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932294AbVKUNCr (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:02:47 -0500 Received: from p-mail2.rd.francetelecom.com ([195.101.245.16]:30990 "EHLO p-mail2.rd.francetelecom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932292AbVKUNCq (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:02:46 -0500 Message-ID: <4381C56F.106@francetelecom.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:02:39 +0100 From: VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN Reply-To: eric2.valette@francetelecom.com Organization: Frnace Telecom R&D User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: sfrench@us.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: CIFS improvements/wider testing needed Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 21 Nov 2005 13:02:39.0556 (UTC) FILETIME=[DA0D1840:01C5EE9B] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org As probably many others, I work in an environment where Windows servers (and thus CIFS filesystem) is used to store home data and backuped shared data. With OpenOffice 2.0 now out, reading and writing Microsoft Office documents is generally not anymore a problem except due to current CIFS bugs. I tried to do my part of bug hunting, carefully reporting bugs and offering help to try to fix them (although I cannot do too hazardous testing on my professional Laptop. See bugzilla reference below). Unfortunately, things did not improve over the past 5 months and even recently slightly got worse (see second bug). Trying to push Linux in corporate environments in such condition is very difficult because, due to those bugs, you cannot: 1) save a new openoffice document twice, 2) create mail folders from inside thunderbird (local mailbox shared with windows), 3) avoid to do FSCK after each reboot, I've seen many changes going in CIFS git tree during this period but only few bugs got really hunted and fixed (try to set the close option in bugzilla at ). SMBfs do not exibit some of the bugs CIFS has but has other limitations as well. Could other on the LKML list try to reproduce/confirm the following bugs with the latest snapshot: NB : the second bug appeared with CIFS 1.39 and is not present in 2.6.14.2 BUGS : May I suggest to fix bugs as a priority before adding new features for a while? Or at least make sure enough testing is done to avoid regressions? -- eric