[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#881239: Panic on opening file on samba share with Microsoft Project

[Mathieu Parent]

Control: tag -1 + wontfix upstream confirmed

2017-11-10 9:33 GMT+01:00 L.P.H. van Belle <belle at bazuin.nl>:
> From the reply from samba.org bugzilla.
> Response: Volker Lendecke 2017-11-10 07:45:25 UTC
>
> WONTFIX might sound harsh, but the fix is not to ship aio_linux in debian.
>
> Linux AIO is not suiteable for samba's file access requirements.
> It only works on O_DIRECT for page-aligned accesses, something Samba does not do.
> The fix is to just say "aio write size = 1" and "aio read size = 1" without any vfs objects.
> This activates the threaded implementation for async I/O that is implemented in core Samba.
> Please transfer this info to the debian package maintainer (if you are not the one yourself :-)
> and close the debian bug with the same statement.

Marking as wontfix here too.

> Please remove aio_linux from the debian package.

I suggest to keep it if it has some use. Frank Chung: Why did you use this vfs?

Regards
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Mathieu Parent