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addpath fails on cifs mounted shares


From: Paul Probert
Subject: addpath fails on cifs mounted shares
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:33:20 -0600
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Folks,
On octave 3.2.4, 32 bit Ubuntu 10.10 x86, I get a failure on a call to addpath('/netmnt/some_shared_dir') where the path refers to a mounted cifs share. The error is: 'warning: addpath: /netmnt/some_shared_dir: Value too large for defined data type'

After a little googling, man paging, and testing, it seems the problem is that a cifs (smbmount or mount.cifs) mounted share has 64 bit inode numbers. If you add "noserverino" to the mount parameters for the share, then addpath works.

The man page (man mount.cifs) says:

It is strongly recommended to compile your programs with LFS support (i.e. with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) to prevent this problem. You can also use "noserverino" mount option to generate inode numbers smaller than 2 power 32 on the client. But you may not be able to detect hardlinks properly.

So, should octave developers be compiling with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 ?

Paul Probert
University of Wisconsin



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