Comments inline.
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 06:45:51PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> I've been told, and have repeated here, that the mtimes of a file
> are not supported by samba because they are not supported by the
> underlying (usually vfat) file system. So apparently, some dummy
> value gets plugged into that field, and if it changes, you get the
> message.
Hey Gene,
Actually, this is an ffs (native OpenBSD) partition.
> In a roundabout way, this also explains why a samba share will often
> get a level 1 that looks like a level 0 sizewise. I also have one
> non-samba, small dos partition for holding bios flash images and
> such, and it gets a full every night, apparently for this same
> reason. Minor detail in that case as its less than 20 megs.
>
> This to me, if its all true, is the one major achilles heel of
> samba.
>
> I keep my music on an ext3 partition :-)
I can easily blame Samba; I think it's a reasonable assumption
to say that Samba is "touching" the files somehow. However, that goes
right out the door, when I add that this server has _three_ other
Samba shares, on the same type of filesystem, that do _not_ have this
annoyance. Now, how do we explain THAT?
Thanks very much for your email... I'd appreciate any further
thoughts. :) This is very perplexing.
Benny
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