File table overflow with smbfs and 2.1.9x

Juergen Scherer (juergen.scherer@rcon.de)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 15:13:37 +0100


This is only a report:

I just wondered if anybody else noticed these overflows in newer
kernel versions.

They didn't appear when I backupped my win95-clients under
2.1.88, but now they are there in the logfile. The affected files
and directories then certainly miss on the backup tape which is
very bad...

It only happens approx. on 50 Files in a 1Gig-Vfat-Filesystem mounted
via smbfs.

This happens only with smbfs, not with any other filesystem (ext2
backups are working flawlessly).

Using something like "cat 16384 > /proc/sys/kernel/file-max"
didn't work out.

Is that a known bug, feature, or just my ignorance and fault ?

Greetings,

Juergen

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