Hi all,
Newbie warning: I recently switched our home server/HTPC from Win7 to Leap 15.2. Bit of a learning curve but so far very impressed with the stability, samba sharing etc. The support here and elsewhere by the community is amazing, my half-brain couldn’t have pulled this off without all the resources here.
The HTPC has a simple Raid 1 (2x WD80EFAX) for SMB shares, with a single NTFS part from Win7 days. Got a bit carried away and decided to go all-in and make a new Ext4 partition in the leftover space to try it out based on it being more Linux-native and supposedly having a bit better performance/resistance to fragmentation.
This caused an issue with samba 4.11 though - some of the files now appeared as dummy “folders” when viewed from Win10 clients. Similar to:
https://superuser.com/questions/1543195/samba-server-wrongly-treated-some-files-as-folders
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1797875
I went back to using the NTFS partition as the source for the SMB shares and all is well again. I assume there’s a way to upgrade samba to 4.12 (Tumbleweed?) which fixes the issue per the su post above but did not want to mess with that just yet
I thought it was interesting that this seems to only happen with the Ext4 partition.
When Leap gets the updated samba, is there any real benefit to going with Ext4? I’m inclined to just keep using the NTFS even if it is a vestige of MS days…
Many thanks!