[linux-cifs-client] Problem with soft links on samba share

[Jeremy Allison]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 08:18:33AM -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
> 
> To be clear, this is really a server-side issue, so you might want to
> bring this up on the samba or samba-technical mailing lists. It might
> be feasible to add a config option to change how symlinks are handled
> when unix extensions are enabled. 

No, I don't think this will happen. It's taken a long time to
get this completely right server side, it would touch a lot of
code paths to change this. Not saying it's impossible, just that
it's not something that any of the active server developers are
going to do as a priority.

With unix extensions turned on, clients should follow their own
symlinks (as NFS - that was the whole point of the design decision).

Jeremy.