[Samba] 2 questions: Linux filesystems that truly compare to NTFS / winbind causes Linux to lockup when connectivity to AD is lost

[Clayton Hill]

Thank you for the info Jeremy

I think I will try EXT4 and see if I have better results then - also I 
agree with you about streams - I just think some of my more foolish 
clients wont.
Better just tell them "NO" firmly and then give them the example you 
gave - ;-)

Any workaround for the winbind problem I have? This to me is a very 
serious problem and all I can think of for a solution is of making a 
script that would ping the DC and if the connection to the DC was gone, 
to kill winbind, then if the DC is back, start winbind back up.
IS this a good idea? It seems very very bad and hacky to me... I am 
hoping with all my fingers crossed that you have a better solution!

Again, thank you - and keep up the excellent work!

Cheers,
-Clayton

Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:21:07PM -0600, admin at ateamonsite.com wrote:
>
>   
>> First, XFS seems to work well for me until it was discovered it has a
>> limited amount of ACLs that can be set in the file system, (25! ) and
>> extended attribute support is kinda kludged in with the same space the ACLs
>> take up??? which can lead to all sorts of issues when dealing with
>> inheritance and the importing of ACLs/EAs etc from files stored on NTFS.
>> Thus I feel that XFS is somewhat poor FS to mimic NTFS.
>> My question:
>> Is there any Linux file system out there that can compare accurately with
>> NTFS? I want seemingly unlimited ACLs, EAs and stream support that can
>> meet, if not exceed the capabilities of NTFS.
>> This is basically a requirement that is a deal breaker for me???
>> Am I asking too much? What file systems do you use? How do they compare to
>> NTFS? 
>>     
>
> No, there is currently no Linux filesystem with the NTFS semantics.
> I think ext4 might have larger EA support, but there is no Linux
> filesystem I know of with unlimited EA's and ACL support.
>
> No Linux filesystem supports streams that I know of. Streams
> are a really bad idea. Ted Tso convinced me of this when he
> showed me a Windows machine running README.txt as a
> binary (containing a virus of course). Streams are pretty
> dangerous and mostly used to hide malware from admins.
>
> Jeremy.
>