Re: port-i386/44092: Cannot copy (/bin/cp) to smbfs-mounted partition

["Alexej D." <alexej.d%email.cz@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/44092; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Alexej D." <alexej.d%email.cz@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>, 
 port-i386-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: port-i386/44092: Cannot copy (/bin/cp) to smbfs-mounted partition
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:25:30 +0100

 Hello David,
 
 I played with file size, and found that both commands cp/cat work while 
 size is <= 136 bytes. That's interesting :)
 
 Yours,
 Alexej.
 
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 On 11/15/10 22:05, David Holland wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR port-i386/44092; it has been noted by 
 > GNATS.
 >
 > From: David Holland<dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: port-i386/44092: Cannot copy (/bin/cp)  to smbfs-mounted
 >   partition
 > Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:01:32 +0000
 >
 >   On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 09:55:00AM +0000, alexej.d%email.cz@localhost 
 > wrote:
 >    >  After mount_smbfs remote filesystem it is not possible to copy file
 >    >  to it: I can read the FS, can create zero-length files on it, can
 >    >  edit and save files on it but can not copy file to it. With NetBSD
 >    >  4.0.1 it worked...
 >    >
 >    >  $ sudo cp mine.xls /mnt/u/S/Upgrade_2006/
 >    >  cp: /mnt/u/S/Upgrade_2006/mine.xls: No buffer space available
 >    >  $
 >    >  [...]
 >    >  Nov 15 10:49:24 dinah /netbsd: WARNING: mclpool limit reached;
 >    >  increase NMBCLUSTERS
 >    >
 >    >  ALso I tried to increase 'NMBCLUSTERS' 10x in kernel, recompile it
 >    >  but it did'n help: I got the old same "mclpool limit reached"
 >    >
 >
 >   Is mine.xls large? (Does this happen even with small files?) Does "cat
 >   mine.xls>  /mnt/u/S/Upgrade_2006/mine.xls" also fail?
 >
 >   My understanding is that smbfs is considered experimental in the
 >   netbsd-5 branch and can't really be expected to work, but I thought it
 >   worked a little better than this.
 >
 >   If the answer is that mine.xls is large, small files work ok, and cat
 >   also works, then this is moderately likely to make the problem go
 >   away:
 >
 >      cd /usr/src/bin/cp
 >      cvs update -j1.34 -j1.36 utils.c
 >      make obj
 >      make dependall install
 >
 >   If this is the case please let us know.
 >
 >   --
 >   David A. Holland
 >   dholland%netbsd.org@localhost
 >
 >