Juan Ignacio Vaccarezza wrote:

Hello all,
�� �� I'm playing with pharo filesystem and I run into an issue.
�� �� �� ��I want to access the content of a remote windows folder from Linux, so my idea was ��to mount it using mount -t cifs, which works perfect, following that i thought I will access from pharo as any other directory.
�� �� Instead of that if I try to make a fileReference with the mount point path I't says it deos not exists. But if I ask the parent folder for its childrends the mount point appears but not as a directory.

Example:
given:
�� �� �� �� /mnt/remoteFolderMountPoint

before mounting:
�� �� �� �� '/mnt/remoteFolderMountPoint' asFileReference exists -> true
�� �� �� �� '/mnt/remoteFolderMountPoint' asFileReference isDirectory -> true
after mounting
�� �� �� �� '/mnt/remoteFolderMountPoint' asFileReference exists -> false
�� �� �� �� '/mnt/remoteFolderMountPoint' asFileReference isDirectory -> false
�� �� �� �� �� �� Other curious thing is that if I do: '/mnt/' asFileReference children, it shows the mountpoint forlder that claims not to exist :S

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Juan

>From http://php.net/manual/en/function.is-dir.php...
Just a note for anyone who encounters is_dir() returning false on CIFS mount points or directories within those mount points on 2.6.31 and newer kernels: Apparently in new kernels they've started using the CIFS serverino option by default. ��With Windows shares this causes huge inode numbers and which apparently can cause is_dir() to return false. ��Adding the noserverino option to the CIFS mount will prevent this. ��This may only occur on 32 systems but I don't have a 64 bit install to test against.

So try using "noserverino" and testing before and after with " ls -i "

Alternatively maybe compiling the VM with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 would work
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7707

Also
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7600863/inode-of-directory-on-mounted-share-changes-despite-no-change-in-modification-ti
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2010-December/075074.html

HTH,
cheers -ben