Re: More than 128 files in a directory?

On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 03:16:14PM -0500, Jerome Whelan wrote:
> Problem Symptoms:
> The "ls" command cannot list directory content of a remote CIFS directory 
> when the directory holds more than 125 user files + dot + dotdot for a 
> total of 127 files.  Fewer files works OK, but with 128 files or more I get 
> "ls: reading directory /mnt/test/: Invalid argument"
> 
> I'm guessing this is associated with the mounting, since the remote CIFS 
> directory CAN be manipulated normally by Windows-XP clients, AND the Linux 
> box can list local disk directories containing thousands of files.
> 
> Any recommendations that will allow full access to CIFS server with large 
> number of files in each directory?
> 
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> 
> System is Fedora Core 6 with these versions installed
> samba-common-3.0.23c-2
> samba-3.0.23c-2
> samba-client-3.0.23c-2
> system-config-samba-1.2.35-1.1
> 
> Remote filesystem is Buffalo TeraServer 1 TB model
> and I mount the remote filesystem using command
> 
> # mount -t cifs   \\\\nas236\\test    /mnt/test

I'm guessing this is the Trans2findnext bug that
was in earlier versions of 3.0.x Samba servers that
has since been fixed. Can you find out what version
of Samba is running on the Buffalo TeraServer ?

Jeremy.