Correct handling of Windows Previous Versions ...

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Mon Jan 19 00:22:12 MST 2015


On Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 08:46:22PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> When I was at Panzura, Shilpa Krishnareddy and I worked on getting the
> handling of Windows Previous Versions correct.
> 
> One of the things we observed was that real Windows systems return
> FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME in the additional flags for the equivalent of a
> smbd_do_qfsinfo request on a file.
> 
> This we fixed by adding an is_rofs field to the FSP and passing the
> FSP into qmbd_do_qfsinfo.
> 
> However, there were a bunch of other changes needed.
> 
> I am trying to get Shilpa to submit a patch showing the changes so we
> can figure out how to integrate them into Samba.

Thanks Richard, that would be really helpful !


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