[Samba] Samba 4.22 breaks Time Machine
Ralph Boehme
slow at samba.org
Mon Mar 10 10:15:26 UTC 2025
On 3/9/25 5:14 AM, jdistler-samba--- via samba wrote:
> Time Machine on macOS relies on fruit:posix_rename (in particular to
> rename the .sparsebundle file). Samba 4.22 removed this feature,
> thus breaking Time Machine.
sorry, but this option was removed as a) it could result in data loss
for Windows clients and b) it was putting a unbearable burden on
development.
The correct fix for this would be getting Apple to implement and use
SMB3 POSIX Extensions which would cover this case correctly.
Sorry!
-slow
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