[Samba] OES Samba question

[Jordan Nielsen]

We are currently running Open Enterprise Server from Novell and have been
migrating to Samba. We have ran into an issue where occasionally a user will
click on a directory and it will just sit there forever with an hour glass
or flashlight. If you go to the same directory through a command prompt and
do a dir on the directory it goes into a continuous loop and reads the
contents of the directory over and over again.

We are running samba-3.0.20b-3.14 and I was curious if anyone else had seen
this problem.

Thanks,

Jordan

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[Bernard Peek]

In message <C28612C2.144A%jordan....@hsc.utah.edu>, Jordan Nielsen
<jordan....@hsc.utah.edu> writes

>We are currently running Open Enterprise Server from Novell and have been
>migrating to Samba. We have ran into an issue where occasionally a user will
>click on a directory and it will just sit there forever with an hour glass
>or flashlight. If you go to the same directory through a command prompt and
>do a dir on the directory it goes into a continuous loop and reads the
>contents of the directory over and over again.
>
>We are running samba-3.0.20b-3.14 and I was curious if anyone else had seen
>this problem.

Is it always the same directory, or always on the same disk? I've seen
similar symptoms caused by a flaky disk.

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Bernard Peek
b...@shrdlu.com

[Jordan Nielsen]

Thanks for the reply. We have had this happen on multiple systems that are
connected to different san disks. The directories that seem to have the
problem are directories that have over a couple hundred and files and the
file names are

On 6/2/07 4:07 AM, "Bernard Peek" <b...@shrdlu.com> wrote:

> In message <C28612C2.144A%jordan....@hsc.utah.edu>, Jordan Nielsen
> <jordan....@hsc.utah.edu> writes
>> We are currently running Open Enterprise Server from Novell and have been
>> migrating to Samba. We have ran into an issue where occasionally a user will
>> click on a directory and it will just sit there forever with an hour glass
>> or flashlight. If you go to the same directory through a command prompt and
>> do a dir on the directory it goes into a continuous loop and reads the
>> contents of the directory over and over again.
>>
>> We are running samba-3.0.20b-3.14 and I was curious if anyone else had seen
>> this problem.
>
> Is it always the same directory, or always on the same disk? I've seen
> similar symptoms caused by a flaky disk.
>

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[Jordan Nielsen]

Thanks for the reply. We have had this happen on multiple systems that are
connected to different san disks. The directories that seem to have the

problem are directories that have over a couple hundred files. Here is an
example of some of the file names in the directory:

B07-138 IgG 40X BP.jpg
B07-138 IgG 40X BP.jpg_meta.xml
B07-145 C3 20X BP.jpg
B07-145 C3 20X BP.jpg_meta.xml

The problem seems to happen with file names that are longer like those
listed above.

Jordan

On 6/2/07 4:07 AM, "Bernard Peek" <b...@shrdlu.com> wrote:

> In message <C28612C2.144A%jordan....@hsc.utah.edu>, Jordan Nielsen
> <jordan....@hsc.utah.edu> writes
>> We are currently running Open Enterprise Server from Novell and have been
>> migrating to Samba. We have ran into an issue where occasionally a user will
>> click on a directory and it will just sit there forever with an hour glass
>> or flashlight. If you go to the same directory through a command prompt and
>> do a dir on the directory it goes into a continuous loop and reads the
>> contents of the directory over and over again.
>>
>> We are running samba-3.0.20b-3.14 and I was curious if anyone else had seen
>> this problem.
>
> Is it always the same directory, or always on the same disk? I've seen
> similar symptoms caused by a flaky disk.
>

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[Jordan Nielsen]

It seems to be an issue with the NSS file system from Novell. Novell is now
fixing that issue for us. Thanks for your help.

Jordan