[HEADS-UP] Using stored immutable file birth time for SMB File-ID

Ralph Boehme slow at samba.org
Thu Jun 27 08:32:26 UTC 2019


On 6/26/19 10:46 PM, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 07:59:08PM +0200, Ralph Boehme wrote:
>>
>> Thinking about it, I will go and ask MS what their client uses the
>> server provided File-IDs for, if at all.
> 
> This was just touched in by the MS SMB client team presentation,
> the File-ID's are used to uniquely identify files in their
> buffer cache I think. They have to be identical between the
> different query methods at least (that was the question that
> was asked).

oh, really?! This means we screw their cache with our current inode
based File-IDs as well.

-slow

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