linux-kernel - Re: CIFS regression in 2.6.27.8

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Message-ID: <OF3E80A64B.F15C9D0B-ON87257519.00745117-86257519.0074700A@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 8 Dec 2008 15:10:35 -0600
From:	Steven French <sfrench@...ibm.com>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
Cc:	Dennis Hardy <dhardy@...etthis.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Holger Hoffstaette <holger@...ards.de>, layton@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: CIFS regression in 2.6.27.8

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 <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> 
12/08/2008 02:58 PM

To
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>, Dennis Hardy 
<dhardy@...etthis.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, layton@...hat.com, 
Steven French/Austin/IBM@...US, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, 
netdev@...r.kernel.org, Holger Hoffstaette <holger@...ards.de>
Subject
Re: CIFS regression in 2.6.27.8






Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:18 PM, Dennis Hardy <dhardy@...etthis.com> 
wrote:
>>> I just mounted a network drive (Windows Server) via CIFS under 
2.6.27.8, and
>>> the sizes reported by "df" are completely incorrect:
...
>>> Does anyone else see this sort of behavior with 2.6.27.8?  This worked 
fine
>>> 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.
-- 
Stefan Richter
-=====-==--- ==-- -=---
http://arcgraph.de/sr/


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