[linux-cifs-client] Re: [Fwd: POSIX pathnames]

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 04:11:04PM -0500, Steven French wrote:
> 
> I don't mind implementing trans2 set_fs_info (it seems pretty easy)
> 
> Servers may export shares on some non-posix filesystems or at least on
> filesystems that don't support all posix names (e.g. xfs/jfs/ext3 etc vs.
> vfat or perhaps ntfs) - although it may not be necessary to report back
> that fs behavior to the client, it is odd for the client to tell the server
> to support naming semantics that it may only be able to partially
> guarantee.

I don't see this as an issue. Existing server-side apps will fail
on these filesystems due to non-POSIX semantics anyway. We'll be
no worse :-).

> I don't mind a setposixsemantics if we could figure out at least a few
> other optional semantics that clients should be telling the server -
> otherwise I prefer that we request best-the-server-can-do posix
> capabilities all at once.

The capabilities set we have should do nicely for this purpose.

Jeremy.