Re: Gvfs and Server-side SMB copy

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2016-10-28 at 13:43 +0200, Saint Germain wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 08:02:26 +0100, Ross Lagerwall
> <rosslagerwall gmail com> wrote :
>
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:06:06AM +0200, Ondrej Holy wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I didn't know that Ross made this code for GVfs... is the code
> > > available somewhere?
> > >
> > > I proposed patches for this recently, however, I haven't got
> > > enough
> > > time to test it properly yet...
> > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771022
> >
> > I haven't published the code anywhere because it was a prototype
> > rather than being properly usable. The other thing that stopped me
> > continuing at the time was that it requires multiple threads with
> > an
> > SMB context per thread and this caused libsmbclient to segfault at
> > the time.  I think that bug has now been fixed.
> >
> > I'll see if I can dig out my patches this weekend and/or look at
> > the
> > above bug.
>
> I've also opened a subject on this topic on samba mailing-list.
> Please have a look at  Jeremy Allison comment on gfvs, perhaps it can
> help:
> https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2016-October/204225.html

I filed https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773632 about the
read buffer size restriction problem.

It will need testing though.

Cheers