Re: SMB-FS: timestamp wrong

Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Tue, 04 Nov 1997 15:28:32 -0500

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Stephan Niemz wrote:
> After switching back to Linux 2.0.29, things work correct again,
> at least almost. With this kernel the whole system crashes sometimes, and
> in no unique way. It seems that this happens mostly (only?) when two users
> access SMB-mounted files at the same time. I don't know if this has been
> fixed in 2.0.31 since that timestamp bug is much more severe.

I think there's a problem with server locking that may be the cause of
troubles when two users access a file. I fixed a locking problem in the
2.1.xx smbfs and some of the changes may need to be back-ported.

You're welcome to check out 2.1.62 smbfs -- it's working quite well now.

Regards,
Bill

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