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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 03:29:45 +0200
From: Xuan Baldauf <xuan--lkml@baldauf.org>
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To: Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] smbfs: caching problems
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Urban Widmark wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote:
>
> > there is something wrong with smbfs caching which makes my
> > applications fail. The behaviour happens with
> > linux-2.4.3-pre4 and linux-2.4.3-final.
> >
> > Consider following shell script: (where /mnt/n is a
> > smbmounted smb share from a Win98SE box)
>
> Try the attached patch, as a workaround.
>

Works for me. :-)

It survived codified test case at the end of this message.

Xu?n.


#!/bin/bash
#

if test -z "$1"; then
 LOCAL=0
fi

if test -n "$LOCAL"; then
 umount /mnt/n

 rmmod smbfs

 # mount
 ~/bin/lwc

 cd /mnt/n/temp
fi


rm -f /tmp/test.abc /tmp/test.xyz testfile

I=0
while test $I -lt 127; do
 echo "abc" >>/tmp/test.abc
 I=$((I+1))
done

I=0
while test $I -lt 129; do
 echo "xyz" >>/tmp/test.xyz
 I=$((I+1))
done

I=0

while test $I -lt 8; do
 cp /tmp/test.abc testfile
 tail -1 testfile
 cp /tmp/test.xyz testfile
 tail -1 testfile

 I=$((I+1))
done

rm -f /tmp/test.abc /tmp/test.xyz testfile


if test -n "$LOCAL"; then
 umount /mnt/n
fi


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