FILE_STATUS_OFFLINE and getting files on-line

Fri Mar 9 16:06:24 UTC 2018

On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 16:59:27 +0100, David Disseldorp via samba-technical wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 07:48:05 -0800, Richard Sharpe via samba-technical wrote:
> 
> > I know they can set the file off-line, is there a similar, set this
> > file on-line request?  
> 
> FSCTL_RECALL_FILE , but I'm not aware of any applications that make use
> of it.

FWIW, there are some old patches floating about which added support for
FSCTL_RECALL_FILE:
https://marc.info/?l=samba-technical&m=121334518711337&w=2

It never made it upstream, as there were some funky changes in the
nttrans code path IIRC.

Cheers, David