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

[Peter Rehley]

On Dec 3, 2005, at 1:49 AM, Corinna Vinschen 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.
>>>
>>> What Samba version is your Mac OS X using?  I'm using 3.0.20a for
>>> which
>>> the inode information is useable.  Is Samba a part of the OS
>>> packages or
>>> did you install it from an external source?  Is it a rather old one?
>>> Can you upgrade?  The problem is that there's no way for us to
>>> distinguish
>>> between a newer and an older version of Samba.  I would rather not
>>> lose
>>> the inode information when available.
>>>
>> 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.
>
> Keep us informed, please.  I'd rather keep the inode handling as it
> is now, but we should at least know if there are ways to solve the
> problem one way or the other.

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.

Thanks for all you help,
Peter

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