[Vm-dev] Re: [Pharo-users] Filesystem bug or limitation?

btc at openinworld.com btc at openinworld.com
Mon Jul 21 16:00:20 UTC 2014


Juan Ignacio Vaccarezza wrote:
> Hello all,
>     I'm playing with pharo filesystem and I run into an issue.
>    
>     I want to access the content of a remote windows folder from 
> Linux, so my idea was  to mount it using mount -t cifs, which works 
> perfect, following that i thought I will access from pharo as any 
> other directory.
>     Instead of that if I try to make a fileReference with the mount 
> point path I't says it deos not exists. But if I ask the parent folder 
> for its childrends the mount point appears but not as a directory.
>
> Example:
> given:
>         /mnt/remoteFolderMountPoint
>
> before mounting:
>         '/mnt/remoteFolderMountPoint' asFileReference exists -> true
>         '/mnt/remoteFolderMountPoint' asFileReference isDirectory -> true
> after mounting
>         '/mnt/remoteFolderMountPoint' asFileReference exists -> false
>         '/mnt/remoteFolderMountPoint' asFileReference isDirectory -> false
>       
>       Other curious thing is that if I do: '/mnt/' asFileReference 
> children, it shows the mountpoint forlder that claims not to exist :S
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Juan
>

 From http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-dir.php...
Just a note for anyone who encounters is_dir() returning false on CIFS 
mount points or directories within those mount points on 2.6.31 and 
newer kernels: Apparently in new kernels they've started using the CIFS 
serverino option by default.  With Windows shares this causes huge inode 
numbers and which apparently can cause is_dir() to return false.  Adding 
the noserverino option to the CIFS mount will prevent this.  This may 
only occur on 32 systems but I don't have a 64 bit install to test against.

So try using "noserverino" and testing before and after with " ls -i "

Alternatively maybe compiling the VM with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 would work
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7707

Also
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7600863/inode-of-directory-on-mounted-share-changes-despite-no-change-in-modification-ti
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2010-December/075074.html

HTH,
cheers -ben





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