DOS EA VFS Calls?

Jeremy Allison jeremy at valinux.com
Fri Mar 30 16:03:19 GMT 2001


On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:21:37AM -0700, Matt Zinkevicius wrote:
> Would it be wrong to assume that the VFS is missing calls for
> setting/getting DOS extended attributes? I would like a chance to store
> them, instead of having samba do it's DOSEA mapping. Maybe the vfs would
> only be called if the various parameters ("archive mapping = ...") have been
> set to no?

Yes, there are a few things missing that should go through
the vfs. DOS attributes and 8.3 filename mangling are
two I can think of right now. I'll look at this soon (I
still need to do more testing on the changes I made with
delete on close).

Jeremy.

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