samba - Oct 2005 - Reliability of samba

When I mount samba partitions using smbmount on a Linux box under
/mnt/linnet_g and run this command:

              find /mnt/linnet_g/ -type f|xargs wc

I get a number of errors which look like this:

  wc: /mnt/linnet_g/analysis.lesion/b19o61/b61o19.9/b61o18.9-042303.332.cbin:
Input/output error


What does this mean? The error is repeatable in a 

I am using samba-3.0.14a-6 on a Debian machine, with kernel 2.6.8.

How does smbclient handle the type of errors which produce these
results?

I have seen a few explanations, but I can't find a really good
answer.  Perhaps a timeout on the Windows side.

-- 
Kevin Dalley
kevin@kelphead.org

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 18:03 -0700, Kevin Dalley wrote:
> When I mount samba partitions using smbmount on a Linux box
I strongly suggest moving to the CIFS VFS for talking to Samba CIFS
servers, as the unix extensions are correctly handled for maximum
transparency.  It is also a far better implementation.
> How does smbclient handle the type of errors which produce these
> results?
It has a different CIFS client implementation entirely, so has different
properties.  
> I have seen a few explanations, but I can't find a really good
> answer.  Perhaps a timeout on the Windows side.
Oh, you mean a windows sever...  I still suggest the CIFS VFS.

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc.        http://suse.de
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url :
http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20051003/80c7df4f/attachment.bin