Hello Tony, Can you please open a Red Hat support case. We will be able to support you better from that channel. Please point them to this discussion when you do open a case. There have been several changes between 2.6.18-164.el5 and 2.6.18-371.8.el5 kernels. Maybe you could try installing the intermediate versions and try to determine where the changes took place. Can you also expand on the following statement. >When I perform "ls -i /path/to/folder" or stat filename /path/to/folder > the file or files have an inode - a number greater than 0, but when I > execute a command like "grep", the inode is 0. Can you show the outputs from both the working kernel and the newer kernel which doesn't seem to work properly. I can use this to create a reproducer on my test machines. Sachin Prabhu On Wed, 2014-05-07 at 16:43 -0400, Tony Jones wrote: > Hi, > > I just installed the latest kernel 2.16.18-371.6.1.el5 on my Red Hat 5.8 > Linux 64-bit server and when I mount a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise > 6.1 Service Pack 1 share, I lose the inode when I run any commands like > "grep", "less" or "find" on any file on the share. This doesn't happen on > the old kernel 2.16.18-164.el5 that I have installed as well. I've set the > /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI to 3 for debugging info and can send the output of the > dmesg's file, if you want to review it. I'm mounting the share with the > command "mount -t cifs -o user=name //ip_address/software /path/to/folder. > When I perform "ls -i /path/to/folder" or stat filename /path/to/folder the > file or files have an inode - a number greater than 0, but when I execute a > command like "grep", the inode is 0. So, the inode is getting lost on the > new kernel update. The Red Hat Linux Server 5.8 is a VM running on VmWare > Workstation 9.0.2 build 1031769. > > I imported the OVF of the Red Hat 5.8 VM on my Windows 2008 Server R2 > Standard Version Service Pack 1 and installed the latest and same kernel - > 2.16.18-371.6.1.el5 and everything works fine. I can "grep" a file or "ls" > a file and the inode is unchanged. > > This is really strange and was hoping someone may have an idea. It's not a > big deal, I can use the old kernel, but would like to know if there's a fix > for this problem. If you need more information, please let me know and I > can send the output of the dmesg > boot.messages file. > > fs/cifs/sess.c: serverOS=Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 7601 Service Pack > 1 > fs/cifs/sess.c: serverNOS=Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 6.1 > fs/cifs/connect.c: disk share connection > fs/cifs/connect.c: nativeFileSystem=NTFS > > Thanks, > Tony > > Tony Jones > Talino Technology, Inc. > tjones@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > O: (703) 436-1467 > C: (703) 927-8158 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
