[gpfsug-discuss] Samba 3.6 and the Windows 'O' attribtute

Orlando Richards orlando.richards at ed.ac.uk
Fri Jan 11 11:53:01 GMT 2013


Oops - never mind, I've found it:

https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2012-October/087425.html



On 11/01/13 11:51, Orlando Richards wrote:
> On 27/09/12 18:49, Barry Evans wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Having a little problem with samba at the moment with the gpfs vfs
>> module loaded. In *every* version of enterprise samba 3.6, when
>> browsing folders in windows explorer a good chunk of the files will
>> come back incorrectly with the 'O' attribute (which is offline - you
>> see this quite often when files have been migrated by HSM off to tape,
>> but there isn't any HSM here).
>>
>> I have also been through every version of GPFS from 3.4.0-10 up to
>> 3.5.0-3 to make sure it's not actually GPFS causing this. With each
>> version, the behaviour is perfect in enterprise samba 3.5.18.
>>
>> if you prevent the gpfs vfs module from loading in samba, the problem
>> also disappears.
>>
>> Anyone else run into this?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Barry
>>
>>
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>
> Hi Barry,
>
> Did you get anywhere with this? I've just run into it too!
>
> --
> Orlando
>
>
>


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