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Re: CIFS regression in 2.6.27.8

From: Steven French <hidden>
Date: 2008-12-08 21:10:55
Also in: lkml

Yes - they look distinct


Steve French
Senior Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
phone: 512-838-2294
email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com



Stefan Richter [off-list ref] 
12/08/2008 02:58 PM

To
"Rafael J. Wysocki" [off-list ref]
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Pekka Enberg [off-list ref], Dennis Hardy 
[off-list ref], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, layton@redhat.com, 
Steven French/Austin/IBM@IBMUS, Greg KH [off-list ref], 
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Holger Hoffstaette [off-list ref]
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Re: CIFS regression in 2.6.27.8






Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Dennis Hardy [off-list ref] 
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I just mounted a network drive (Windows Server) via CIFS under 
2.6.27.8, and
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the sizes reported by "df" are completely incorrect:
...
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Does anyone else see this sort of behavior with 2.6.27.8?  This worked 
fine
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in 2.6.27.6 (we skipped 2.6.27.7)...
There were several cifs updates in .8 but AFAIU none in .7.
FWIW, it seems to be related to this one: 
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/8/7

Holger's report is about the userland SMB/CIFS server, while Denis's is
about kernelspace client code.  They look like separate issues to me.
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Stefan Richter
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