Re: surprise behavior #2: files confused with directories

On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:16:31 -0800
aaron brick <[email protected]> wrote:

> i am having two intermittent problems with CIFS and am sending
> separate emails to the list for each. this paragraph is identical. my
> desktop runs debian and kernel 2.6.32rc7; i am mounting a filesystem
> from my synology NAS, running DSM 2.2-0942 and using ext3 & RAID5
> internally. the link is gigabit through cat5e and a netgear switch.
> the only CIFS dmesg entry i see is a couple of: "CIFS VFS: server
> 10.1.1.2 of type Samba 3.2.8 returned unexpected error on SMB posix
> open, disabling posix open support. Check if server update available."
> (FWIW, synology hasn't released a firmware with a more recent samba.)
> 
> 
> here, seemingly in older terminals, files get mistaken for
> directories, and particularly the parent (..) or current (.)
> directories. when moving a file from one directory to another, and
> using tab completion for long filenames, i accidentally vacate whole
> sections of my directory structure. apparently the problem can reverse
> itself, as you can see in this transcript:
> 

Interesting. Does this occur if you mount with "-o noserverino"?

-- 
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>