On Sat, 2013-07-06 at 20:41 -0500, Karl Schmidt wrote: > On 07/05/2013 08:45 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >I found out that JFS actually maintains a stable ordering for directory > > entries, rather than relying on hash values, and therefore can't suffer > > from the same kind of problem that ext3/4 had. > > > > Have you fsck'd this filesystem recently? > > Yes, I just finished running some tests - I can not recreate this problem > with other Linux boxes > sharing the same directory - only the share via samba via the windows machine > - thus I much suspect > that this is a samba/windoze problem. > > I've spent the day installing and testing the windows XP client for nfs - > seems a bit buggy - I've > been told I should upgrade that machine to windoze 7.. <heavy sigh>.
But it's the Linux NFS client reporting the problem. Maybe Samba or the Windows client does something that is particularly likely to trigger this, but there is surely a bug in Linux (JFS or the NFS client or server). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings It is easier to write an incorrect program than to understand a correct one.
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