[linux-cifs-client] Re: proposed new Unix QFS Info level

[James Peach]

On 06/02/07, Steve French <smfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/6/07, Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:48:06PM -0600, Steve French wrote:
> > > To do gid and uid mappings to/from SIDS e.g. to aid in ACL management
> > > is probably better done via Volker's UnixInfo pipe.
> >
> > Not sure the UnixInfo pipe is ever going to make it. I
> > recently looked more closely at the registry API. This would
> > give us quite a bit of what we need as well from a data
> > model point of view.
> >
> > Volker
> >
> >
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> Do you think that there is a need to support
>      "lsattr -v"
> (or BSD equivalent) over the network?  This returns the version number
> of a file (via a "well known" ioctl number that multiple fs support).

Are there applications that depend on this (other than lsattr)?

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