support for mknod to windows now in cifs vfs

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Nov 20 03:56:44 GMT 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 13:55 -0600, Steve French wrote:
> Andrew Bartlett wrote: 
> > On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 22:30 -0600, Steve French wrote:
> >   
> > > I added the code to cifs vfs to enable it do mknod of block and 
> > > chardevice even if the server does not support the Unix extensions (such 
> > > as Windows).  This requires the "sfu" mount option to be specified 
> > >     
> > 
> > Any reason why this isn't on by default? 
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
> >   
> 
> I agree with most of Martin's points - even on Windows there are a few
> (possibly with Vista) three ways e.g. to do symlinks.  Although sfu is
> the most important way to do it it is a bit slower too.

Isn't there also the mac 'magic file size' thing too?  Did that change,
or should we also cope with servers holding those files?

Andrew Bartlett

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