Re: [BUG] Smbfs + preempt on 2.4.10

Robert Love (rml@tech9.net)
29 Oct 2001 15:53:32 -0500


On Mon, 2001-10-29 at 13:56, J Sloan wrote:
> vda wrote:
> > I narrowed down Samba weirdness I observe on 2.4.10 to preempt patch.
> > Plain 2.4.10 works fine, 2.4.10+preempt (with latency measurement turned on)
> > is sometimes oopses, and sometimes reports 'file already exists' when I
> > attempt to copy a file from WinNT box to Linux. Sometimes it works ok
> > (50% or so...)
>
> Why not try a recent kernel + preempt?

Yes, would you mind retesting on a recent kernel and a recent patch?

Patches for kernels as old as 2.4.12 and as recent as the current
pre-releases are available at:

http://tech9.net/rml/linux/

I use samba myself a _lot_ here and I have not observed any problems,
even with our older patches... although I don't copy NT->Linux very
often.

Robert Love

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