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Date:      Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:12:14 +0100
From:      Rainer Schwarze <rsc@admadic.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Incomplete file listing with Samba on ext2fs
Message-ID:  <47337BAE.6000509@admadic.de>
In-Reply-To: <47306D15.9020208@admadic.de>
References:  <472F589E.7090206@admadic.de> <472FA898.2080704@cyberleo.net> <47306D15.9020208@admadic.de>

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Rainer Schwarze wrote:
> CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
>> Rainer Schwarze wrote:
>>> I created 1000 files named "file000" ... "file0999" in a directory. I
>>> could see all of them via Windows.
>>>
>>> I created 1000 files named "file-0000.file" ... "file-0999.file" in a
>>> directory. I could see the first 130 files of them.
>> Are you sure this is only happening with ext2fs? You might be running
>> into a filename mangling limitation in Samba.
[...]
> However, everything works well when I put the same set of files on a UFS
> volume shared by samba. 

Just an update in case someone looks for the same problem:

On the samba mailing list it was pointed out, that there are problems
with non-UFS shares. In /usr/ports/UPDATING this snippet is included
(which as it looks like I did not read carefully :-) ):

| 20070919:
|   AFFECTS: users of net/samba3
|   AUTHOR: timur@FreeBSD.org
[...]
|   Bug #4715 (https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4715) is NOT
|   fixed yet, although it won't core dump smbd process any more. Still,
|   access to the shares other than UFS is not guaranteed.

Best wishes, Rainer
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