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Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot (problem with inode numbers. problem figured out)


On Dec  4 11:41, Peter Rehley wrote:
> >On Dec  2 12:34, Peter Rehley wrote:
> >>On Dec 2, 2005, at 3:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>The problem is, that your Samba version apparently screws up the  
> >>>inode
> >>>information and we have re-enabled using the inode numbers sent from
> >>>remote file systems which are supposed to be capable of that.  For
> >>>this
> >>>we use the HAS_PERSISTENT_ACLS property.
> >>>[...]
> >>I'm using mac os x 10.4.3 which is using samba version 3.0.10.  So
> >>it's not that old.  However, I did find one reference that implied
> >>that mac did something funny for acl's.
> >>
> >>I'm going to try install a non-apple version of samba and see what
> >>happens.
> >[...]
> Can I say "D'oh"?  I knew I could ;)
> 
> The problem turned out to be a samba configuration issue.  Several  
> months ago I had added the parameter "large readwrite = no" to my  
> smb.conf file in order to speed up transfers between my mac and  
> windows.  When it's in the configuration file the inodes are messed  
> up.  When I remove it, the inodes are fine.
> 
> I get the same behavior on a non-apple version of samba... in my case  
> I tried the darwinports version, 3.0.20b, and large readwrite had the  
> same problem.
> 
> So problem solved.

Cool.  Thanks for keeping us informed so this is in the archives now.
Maybe that's even worth to note in the FAQ.


Corinna

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