https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=475689 Summary: Cannot overwrite files on a mounted cifs filesystem Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i586 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: juergen.kirschbaum@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012700 SUSE/3.0.6-1.4 Firefox/3.0.6 Since openSUSE 11.1 it's not possible to overwrite files on a mounted cifs filesystem. jk@skywalker:/mnt/jk/tmp/bug> mount|grep cifs //rambo/jk on /mnt/jk type cifs (rw,mand,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=jk) jk@skywalker:/mnt/jk/tmp/bug> ls -la total 0 drwxr-x--- 1 jk jk 0 Feb 13 17:10 . drwxr-x--- 2 jk jk 0 Feb 13 17:06 .. jk@skywalker:/mnt/jk/tmp/bug> touch foo jk@skywalker:/mnt/jk/tmp/bug> ls -la total 0 drwxr-x--- 1 jk jk 0 Feb 13 17:10 . drwxr-x--- 2 jk jk 0 Feb 13 17:06 .. -rw-r----- 1 jk jk 0 Feb 13 17:10 foo jk@skywalker:/mnt/jk/tmp/bug> echo "foo" >foo -bash: foo: No such file or directory jk@skywalker:/mnt/jk/tmp/bug> ls -la total 0 drwxr-x--- 1 jk jk 0 Feb 13 17:10 . drwxr-x--- 2 jk jk 0 Feb 13 17:06 .. -rw-r----- 1 jk jk 0 Feb 13 17:10 foo jk@skywalker:/mnt/jk/tmp/bug> echo "foo" >>foo jk@skywalker:/mnt/jk/tmp/bug> ls -la total 4 drwxr-x--- 1 jk jk 0 Feb 13 17:10 . drwxr-x--- 2 jk jk 0 Feb 13 17:06 .. -rw-r----- 1 jk jk 4 Feb 13 17:11 foo jk@skywalker:/mnt/jk/tmp/bug> Doing the same from an openSUSE 11.0 or below and a CentOS 5.2 works without problems. It seems to me, that something is wrong with the cifs kernel-module. kernel-pae-2.6.27.7-9.1 kernel-pae-base-2.6.27.7-9.1 kernel-pae-extra-2.6.27.7-9.1 kernel-syms-2.6.27.7-9.1 cifs-mount-3.2.6-0.3.1 Any ideas? JK Reproducible: Always -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.