From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 16:55:21 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0E9106569F for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:55:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDB48FC08 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:55:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.27]) by QMTA02.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Tm191a00B0b6N64A2svLPM; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:55:20 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id TsvK1a00C2P6wsM8PsvKpz; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:55:20 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=nhwMfIpzXh4A:10 a=_XhESaQaCjIA:10 a=IjGrbkjIAAAA:8 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=EpED34Ww9do6SDeXIGMA:9 a=nTDqdDyPbPBbtKvNCobSmkaVffYA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 06597C9432; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:55:19 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: charlie@cpsoftware.com Message-ID: <20081017165519.GA26298@icarus.home.lan> References: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr> <20081017174145.L10784@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1960fb140810170913s237f7295jd5e192f1745c9dcb@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1960fb140810170913s237f7295jd5e192f1745c9dcb@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:55:21 -0000 On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 05:13:45PM +0100, Charles Mason wrote: > From what I have seen, both are perfectly capable and since its samba > that will be doing most of the actual work its probably doesn't matter > that much. Of course the next question if he goes with Linux, is which > distro. Perhaps the question should be FreeBSD v Red Hat v Ubuntu v > SUSE v latest flavour of the month. Since keeping it patched is > essential, these sorts of admin features do matter. And did this bug ever get addressed? If so, when/what commit? http://www.vnode.ch/fixing_seekdir The workaround is very, very painful when it comes to directories which have many files. That workaround is to disable the name cache entirely in Samba: directory name cache size = 0 -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |