SOLVED Samba: Enabling streams_xattr breaks OS X functionality

[tobiasbp]

Hello....

I have created a single (default) Samba share in my FreeNAS 11.1. Out of the box, these vfs objects are enabled:

vfs objects = zfs_space zfsacl streams_xattr aio_pthread


On this share, some OS X functionality does not work. An example is color tagging of directories.

If i disable streams_xattr, leaving me with these vfs objects, the OS X features work as expected on the share:

vfs objects = zfs_space zfsacl aio_pthread


I would like to enable the vfs object fruit, in order to better support my OS X users, but since fruit relies on stream_xattr, I can not turn it on.

Any suggestions?

 

[anodos]

Hello....

I have created a single (default) Samba share in my FreeNAS 11.1. Out of the box, these vfs objects are enabled:

vfs objects = zfs_space zfsacl streams_xattr aio_pthread


On this share, some OS X functionality does not work. An example is color tagging of directories.

If i disable streams_xattr, leaving me with these vfs objects, the OS X features work as expected on the share:

vfs objects = zfs_space zfsacl aio_pthread


I would like to enable the vfs object fruit, in order to better support my OS X users, but since fruit relies on stream_xattr, I can not turn it on.

Any suggestions?

I have confirmed there is a regression in handling of color tags. Currently trying to determine what changes in samba caused it. This should be fixed in a future release.

 

[tobiasbp]

I have previously posted some debugging info related to this problem in this thread.

 

[anodos]

I have previously posted some debugging info related to this problem in this thread.

There is currently a fix in progress. I don't have an ETA. It will probably be in the next release.

 

[tobiasbp]

There is currently a fix in progress. I don't have an ETA. It will probably be in the next release.

Sounds good. Thank you.

Is there a bug which I can follow?

 

[anodos]

I don't know if it's publicly visible, but here: https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/28491

 

[tobiasbp]

Looking at the bug, the problem seems to be fixed, and scheduled for the next release.

Thank you.

 

[anodos]

Looking at the bug, the problem seems to be fixed, and scheduled for the next release.

Thank you.

No problem. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. OSX SMB client color tags interacts slightly differently with xattrs than a typical SMB client behavior. It presents an interesting edge case that we hadn't tested before.

 

[tobiasbp]

Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Happy to help. Thank you for all you work on FreeNAS.

 

[anodos]

Happy to help. Thank you for all you work FreeNAS.

You're welcome, but the heavy-lifting was done by @BaT :)

 

[tobiasbp]

You're welcome, but the heavy-lifting was done by @BaT :)

Thanks @BaT

 

[tobiasbp]

I have tested the color tag functionality of the OS X Finder on a Samba share running off of a FreeNAS 11.1-U2 installation.

Color tags now work the way they should. Thank you to everyone involved!