[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#639364: Bug#639364: samba: Cached and uncached file attributes have distinct timestamps

[Christian PERRIER]

Quoting Cyril Bouthors (cyb at debian.org):
> On 26 Aug 2011, bubulle at debian.org wrote:
> 
> > What do you mean by "under CIFS"
> 
> I meant a remotely mounted Samba share.
> 

so "mount.cifs ///server/share /some_directory"?

> > and "CIFS/ext3 export"?
> 
> I meant an ext3 filesystem remotely mounted over Samba.

So, a *nix machine exports a directory through its samba daemon and
another *nix machine mounts it with mount.cifs?

> 
> >> # touch x; ls --full-time x; sleep 1; ls --full-time x
> >> -rw-rw-rw- 1 atn atn 0 2011-08-26 13:32:13.330511809 +0200 x
> >> -rw-rw-rw- 1 atn atn 0 2011-08-26 13:32:13.000000000 +0200 x

Here, in what filesystem are you? Is this a filesystem that's mounted
with mount.cifs?

> >
> > I really don't see how samba daemons are involved in this, sorry.
> 
> I don't know Samba that much but it seems obvious that this issue only happens
> over a Samba share: local timestamps modifications are OK if you correctly read

Nope, over a CIFS (the name of the protocol used by Windows and
Samba...and mount.cifs...and the cifs kernel module) share mounted
with mount.cifs.....from my understanding.

What happens if the remote directory is a Windows share?


I suspect this to be a problem in the cifs module of the kernel.



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