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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.31-rc8 inotify hangs samba clients
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:37:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h79ina$p8b$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0908282358560.19623@boston.corp.fedex.com>

On 08/28/2009 09:13 AM, Jeff Chua wrote:
>
>
> The first part of commit 0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd hangs
> WinXP clients browsing Linux samba folders ... trying to add a
> terminating byte to name_len. Reverting this solves the problem.

As another data point, the same commit also prevents udev from creating
the /dev/vboxdrv device when the vboxdrv kernel module gets loaded.

Haven't tried Eric's patches yet, but I'm betting the problem will be
cured.  Thanks for the quick fix, Eric.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-08-28 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-28 16:13 Linux-2.6.31-rc8 inotify hangs samba clients Jeff Chua
2009-08-28 16:20 ` Eric Paris
2009-08-28 16:30   ` Jeff Chua
2009-08-29  5:48     ` Linus Torvalds
2009-08-30  0:36       ` Jeff Chua
2009-08-28 21:37 ` walt [this message]

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