docx files gone from share when edited from Windows PC

[peaeater]

I'm new to Amahi and Linux, having switched over from WHS1. You know how it is. I'm using Greyhole with 3 2TB drives, formatted with the ext3 filesystem. All shares are accessible from Windows PCs. So far so good.

Recently on a Windows 7 PC I opened a docx file from a share in Word 2010 and worked on it for a while, saving as I went. It acted normally until I closed the file, whereafter at some point the file was gone, replaced by a *.tmp file. (Not the temp file Word creates while a doc is open, either.) I tested this twice more, to the same effect. Other (non-edited) docx files reside in the same share but remain there without incident, no other files or file types have gone disappearing, and reading any file directly from a share causes no problems (e.g. PDF, MP3, etc.).

The server and shares have been up about a week, and since the problem described above I have treated the shares as static file stores only. That is, I have only updated files by copying them to the Windows PC, then copying the update back up.

So my question is: is this aberrant behaviour, or the normal state of affairs with Windows-to-Linux filesystems, or a Greyhole issue? Or something else?

Thanks for any help.

EDIT: Wouldn't you know it, I found some helpful info in the Greyhole forum right after posting. A "greyhole --debug" on the relevant filename revealed that Greyhole renamed the *.tmp file to *.docx multiple times during the period I was editing it, and that finally it failed to resolve the last rename. Manually renaming *.tmp to *.docx restored the "missing" file. Obviously this is a Greyhole issue, and I note that Guillaume acknowledges it as such.

[NeverSimple]

Hello,

I've had somehing very similar happen:

http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2164

Guillaume could find the reason for the error and prepared a fix for a new release. Don't know if the new releases that came out after that already contained the fix.

Richard

[sleife]

Same problem here!!

Its really dangerous, when a lot of people work on a Share... when is a fix available?

greetz

[bigfoot65]

Have you employed the mount local shares service for greyhole? See the wiki.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Greyhole

I did that and was modifying files from the shares directly. I never had any issues.

[gboudreau]

Any Greyhole above 0.9 should not have such problems.
If you're running Greyhole 0.9 or more, and have this problem, post in the Greyhole forum (see sticky for the details on how to post all the necessary information).