Samba and MS Shadow Copy

[Ken Cross]

No doubt about it -- it introduces potential holes.  They're short-lived,
but they definitely exist.  It's certainly something we'd want an option to
disable.

Ken
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Ken Cross

Network Storage Solutions
Phone 865.675.4070 ext 31
kcross at nssolutions.com 

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> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 4:55 PM
> To: Jeremy Allison
> Cc: 'Stefan (metze) Metzmacher'; Ken Cross; 'Alexander 
> Bokovoy'; 'Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-TECHNICAL'
> Subject: Re: Samba and MS Shadow Copy
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> 
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> 
> > > This is very interesting ...
> > 
> > The problem is it may violate guarentees for files existing etc. 
> > accross smbds and external processes. I think that's why it has no 
> > warranty :-).
> 
> Yes, and in a distributed file system, there are some 
> additionaly problems 
> ...
> 
> Regards
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> Richard Sharpe, rsharpe[at]ns.aus.com, rsharpe[at]samba.org, 
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