[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#441971: Bug#441971: smbfs: tail -f on growing file shared from WINXP BOX not working

[maciej rzepkowski]

Dnia czwartek, 13 września 2007, Christian Perrier napisał:
> I would strongly recommend to first try reproducing this with the *cifs*
> file system instead of smbfs.
>
> smbfs is unmaintained upstream and very unlikely to be fixed in any way.
>
> If the bug shows up with cifs, then we'll have good material to send
> upstream.
>
> If the bug doesn't happen with cifs, then this bug will join the long
> list of "smbfs sucks" bugs until we finally decide to completely remove
> the smbfs utilities from the smbfs package

Few test shown that mounting using CIFS with option "directio" solved my 
problem, so if smbfs will be no longer used, i recomend to close this 
request. 

Thanks fo advice.

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Rzepkowski Maciej