Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:55:19 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: charlie@cpsoftware.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ? Message-ID: <20081017165519.GA26298@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <1960fb140810170913s237f7295jd5e192f1745c9dcb@mail.gmail.com> References: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr> <20081017174145.L10784@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1960fb140810170913s237f7295jd5e192f1745c9dcb@mail.gmail.com>
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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 |
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