[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#881239: Bug#881239: Panic on opening file on samba share with Microsoft Project

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 14:36 +0100, Mathieu Parent wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + wontfix upstream confirmed
> 
> 2017-11-10 9:33 GMT+01:00 L.P.H. van Belle <belle at bazuin.nl>:
> > From the reply from samba.org bugzilla.
> > Response: Volker Lendecke 2017-11-10 07:45:25 UTC
> > 
> > WONTFIX might sound harsh, but the fix is not to ship aio_linux in debian.
> > 
> > Linux AIO is not suiteable for samba's file access requirements.
> > It only works on O_DIRECT for page-aligned accesses, something Samba does not do.
> > The fix is to just say "aio write size = 1" and "aio read size = 1" without any vfs objects.
> > This activates the threaded implementation for async I/O that is implemented in core Samba.
> > Please transfer this info to the debian package maintainer (if you are not the one yourself :-)
> > and close the debian bug with the same statement.
> 
> Marking as wontfix here too.
> 
> > Please remove aio_linux from the debian package.
> 
> I suggest to keep it if it has some use. Frank Chung: Why did you use this vfs?

Please don't keep it.  It just confuses folks and the code should have
been removed upstream much earlier, and we have an alternative that is
much safer. 

Andrew Bartlett

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