[linux-cifs-client] About seekable files.

[Jeff Layton]

On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:00:02 +0100
Stef Bon <stefbon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm working on a construction which makes various resources like SMB
> shares and USB devices direct available
> It's based on a fuse module I've developed fuse-workspace-union and
> the automounter for linux, autofs. Autofs takes care of the mounting.
> Look at
> 
> http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=85148
> 
> and
> 
> http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/create_workspace
> http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/fuse-workspac
> 
> 
> Now someone asked me that my construction supports seeking in files.
> The context was the comparing of connections made through the
> kioslaves in KDE, which do not support seeking.
> I can imagine the problem, cause the kio slave kio_smb creates a
> connection, not a mount.
> The cifs filesystem creates a mount.
> To be sure, I'm asking this here.
> So, do the cifs fs support the seeking in files.
> 

Yes, it should. Note that the current location in the file is tracked
on the client and not the server.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>