[PATCH v2 3/3] cifs: skip tests that need POSIX support for nounix mounts

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Wed Aug 27 11:13:16 MDT 2014


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 11:17:25AM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> Do you know a more standardized way to test if symlink support is available?
> We don't really have the same thing as the FS and Device capability ioctls
> that Microsoft offers, but even for them, they don't export whether symlink
> support is enabled as a volume or export property.
> Presumably we could try to create one and look for the rc EOPNOTSUPP), but
> it seems simple enough for now to check on mount looking for
> fs-specific features
> as Pavel has done, or to always enable the symlink tests for cifs (and
> smb3 after
> we have added it).

There's not good way to check for it except for trying.  So a simple
routine that creates a symlink on $TEST_DIR and checks if that works
would be the way to go.


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