Bug#289690: smbfs fails on some files on kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686-smp version 2.6.8-13

[Jo Shields <directhex@apebox.org>]

Package: kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686
Followup-For: Bug #289690


Further to the above report, I have a somewhat lazier smbfs mount set on boot (some simple entries in fstab, with a credentials file).

Some of my music, stored on a Windows Server 2003 machine, is not properly accessible via these smbfs mounts - there is a delay of up to a minute and an I/O error, before the file is transferred.

This problem ONLY occurs with smbfs on kernel 2.6.8 - the same files are accessible using Windows XP, the same kernel with smbclient, the same kernel with -t cifs instead of -t smbfs, or a 2.6.11 kernel with -t smbfs.

directhex@dib:~$ time cp /mnt/gir/music/Eels/Blinking\ Lights\ And\ Other\ Revelations/05\ -\ Trouble\ With\ Dreams.mp3 /tmp/
cp: reading `/mnt/gir/music/Eels/Blinking Lights And Other Revelations/05 - Trouble With Dreams.mp3': Input/output error
real    0m31.449s
user    0m0.007s
sys     0m0.058s
directhex@dib:~$ time cp /mnt/foo/Eels/Blinking\ Lights\ And\ Other\ Revelations/05\ -\ Trouble\ With\ Dreams.mp3 /tmp/
real    0m0.057s
user    0m0.002s
sys     0m0.053s

/mnt/gir/music and /mnt/foo are mounting the same Windows Server 2003 share, the former uses smbfs the latter cifs.


--Jo Shields

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)