On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:49:49 -0400 starlight@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > At 05:39 PM 9/16/2010 -0400, starlight@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >Trying out a CIFS mount of a W2K8 x64 file system from CentOS > >5.5 and running into problems, and trying to figure out how to > >proceed. > > Oops. I see the problem is that CIFS, at least in the older > stable versions, does not support hard links. The extracted > archives have a few of these and so the resulting tree is not a > synchronized copy of the original. > > Oh well, so much for that. > Ok, good to know. There were patches that went to mainline to make CIFS support server inode numbers correctly, which is sort of a requirement for proper hardlink support. Those were really too invasive for a minor RHEL release however. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
