cifs really got me, where is smb?

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Fri Feb 27 23:16:25 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 19:56, James C. Bevier wrote:
> I have all the lastest updates as of this morning.  OS is
> 2.6.3-1.110smp.  I mounted a smb share exported from a FC1
> machine using "mount -t cifs -o rw,user=xxx,password=yyyy,
> workgroup=WORKGROUP //gateway/src /src".  I edited
> a file with vi (wierd chars at eol are now fixed) and saved
> it.  I had used file name "FIle.cpp" so I went to the gateway
> machine and renamed the file.  "mv FIle.cpp File.cpp".  I
> went back to the FC2T1 system and did vi file.cpp and it
> is the original file unedited???  Went to gateway machine and
> the mods are in the file meaning it was written properly, but
> I can not get back the modified file.  Is this some sort of caching
> problem?  I saw this yesterday, but I did not know what was
> the sequence that caused the failure.  I had to unmount the
> filesystem and remount it to be able to see the modified file.

bugzilla this please.

Dave





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