[Samba] 4.1.7 Server Side Copies & Disk Permissions

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Wed Apr 30 03:48:49 MDT 2014


On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 11:35 +0200, David Disseldorp wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:50:02 +0100, Stuart Naylor wrote:
> 
> > If you want to use extended server side copies, which are pretty neat then actually no copy happens just the btrfs metadata is changed.
> > 
> > So firstly with no change with btrfs or ext4 or ... server side copies work.
> > 
> > For extended server side copies to use all the niceness of btrfs the vfs objects =  btrfs needs to be set.
> 
> Stay tuned for 4.2, where you'll get transparent compression support
> too :-)
> http://blog.elastocloud.org/2014/01/samba-transparent-file-compression-on.html

But only for windows clients? Can Linux clients request compression
too? 



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