Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 23 May 2001 00:57:47 +0200 | From | Xuan Baldauf <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFT] smbfs bugfixes for 2.4.4 |
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Urban Widmark wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Xuan Baldauf wrote: > > > That is annoying, because it heavily slows down bulk transfers of small > > writes, like automatically unzipping a new mozilla build from the linux box to > > the windows box. Every write of say 100 bytes is implemented as > > > > send write req > > recv write ack > > send flush req > > sync to disk (on the windows machine) > > recv flush ack > > The only other way I have found so far to get it to return the right file > size is to do a "seek-to-end". That still means an extra SMB but it avoids > the very painful "sync to disk". > > Fortunately the seek is only necessary when refreshing inode info, on a > "win95" server, on a file that is open and that we have written to.
Maybe it is also a workaround for the problem where changes on the windows side are not reflected?
> > > This should be significantly better, but still works with my testcases. > patch vs 2.4.5-pre4, please test. > > /Urban >
[...patch...]
Is it possible to resend the patch in mime format or publish it somewhere accessible by an URL? Netscape Messenger creates spaces everywhere where tabs should be :-(
Xuân.
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