[linux-cifs-client] Re: support for mknod to windows now in cifs vfs

[Steve French]

Andrew Bartlett wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 13:55 -0600, Steve French wrote:
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>>Andrew Bartlett wrote: 
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>>>On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 22:30 -0600, Steve French wrote:
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>>>>I added the code to cifs vfs to enable it do mknod of block and 
>>>>chardevice even if the server does not support the Unix extensions (such 
>>>>as Windows).  This requires the "sfu" mount option to be specified 
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>>>Any reason why this isn't on by default? 
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>>>Andrew Bartlett
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>>I agree with most of Martin's points - even on Windows there are a few
>>(possibly with Vista) three ways e.g. to do symlinks.  Although sfu is
>>the most important way to do it it is a bit slower too.
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>Isn't there also the mac 'magic file size' thing too?  Did that change,
>or should we also cope with servers holding those files?
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>Andrew Bartlett
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For symlinks I am not as worried about samba (the server) interpreting 
them as it is more important that the client recognize them.  I think 
that the Linux cifs client will probably have to add code to recognize 
them but as I don't have access to any macs any more I can't create ones 
to verify this feature.
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