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Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.31-rc8 inotify hangs samba clients
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:37:45 -0700
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On 08/28/2009 09:13 AM, Jeff Chua wrote:
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>
> 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.