Subject: Re: Process hangs copying large file to cifs
From: Nuno Ferreira <nuno.ferreira@graycell.biz>
To: Steve French <smfltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:12:24 +0100
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On Seg, 2004-06-28 at 16:58 -0500, Steve French wrote:
> >  > This is copying a 197Mb from an my laptop's IDE hardisk to a cifs 
> > mounted share that's on a Win2000 Server
> 
> Linus had suggested hashing cifs inodes, which makes sense as related to
> the problem that you reported.  I have coded that and it tested out ok
> today. If you have a chance could you try the patch at:
> 
> http://cifs.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5cifs/gnupatch@40e0925dAlasT6JDoPqQE2q3e-zYiw

I applied it by hand to plain 2.6.7 (had some rejects) and it appears to
work. Thank you.
I just copied a 600Mb from my laptop to the server with no problems,
continued to work on my desktop with no visible effects.
Great work.
-- 
Nuno Ferreira

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