Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 18:15 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> Cifs supports UNIX extensions. They both support mixed case. It >> depends on the options you pick. > ---- > sure - are you recommending it? Do you do user maps? Are you suggesting > that cifs mounts are preferable mounts for Linux<=>Linux/Posix<=>Posix > use? I would not recommend any network file system without knowing the network it is going to be used on. There are times where cifs mounts are going to work out better then NFS mounts. This is especially true when most clients are Windows machines. If you only have a few Linux clients, then it makes sense for them to use the same method as the Windows machines. > ---- > Yeah and then the name is mangled for Windows users since they cannot > comprehend any difference between 'my file.txt' and 'My File.txt' > > So you've relocated the problem from Linux to Windows. > You actually have Windows users that type in file names when they want to open a file? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
