[Samba] Using SMB_VFS_IS_OFFLINE for directories.

[Dean Roehrich]

On 07/20/2014 07:44 AM, Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 03:53:37PM -0500, Dean Roehrich wrote:
>> I've attached the patch.
>>
>> Right now the only testing I've done is to have a plugin that always
>> returns 'true' to the SMB_VFS_IS_OFFLINE() op and then on the
>> windows box I manually navigate through the folder hierarchy.
>
> One question: What is your reason behind doing it? Does it
> change Windows behaviour, i.e. does Windows traverse those
> directories less for example?

We have a case where the linux node may not be able to immediately 
provide the contents of the folder.  We'd like to have the windows 
client wait on its original request for the duration of the delay, 
rather than making new requests.  In our case, the delay is always less 
than OffLineFileTimeoutIntervalInSeconds, but still long enough that we 
need to tell windows that the file/folder is offline.

Dean


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