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

Barry Evans bevans at canditmedia.co.uk
Fri Jan 11 11:54:36 GMT 2013


Too quick!

It looks like it's definitely sorted in 3.6.10 if not 3.6.9

Cheers,
Barry





On 11 Jan 2013, at 11:53, Orlando Richards <orlando.richards at ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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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