On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 20:00:14 -0400 starlight@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > At 05:50 PM 9/16/2010 -0500, Steve French wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:39 PM, <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. > ... > > > >This is quite old kernel, but perhaps it was updated to include more > >recent fixes - can you view the version information on the file, ie > >the cifs.ko module (you can do this by running modinfo on > >cifs.ko) > > > > Thank you for the follow-up. Per my last message this was my > being a clueless in regards to the lack of hard/soft link > support in the old version. 'modinfo' pegs it as 1.60RH. > > Hopefully RHEL6 will include CIFS file links as it might work > better to compile on Linux from a Windows share rather than > vice-versa. 'makedepend' runs painfully slow from Windows over > a Samba share unless IPoIB is used for transport. > > Perhaps I'll try it under Fedora, though in general I find > wrestling with the constant change of the moving-target distro > too much. > > It is quite encouraging to see CIFS work in general. Last time > I tried three or four years ago the system crashed shortly after > issuing the mount command. > RHEL6 is fairly current with mainline code (at least as of this past spring or so). If it works OK on Fedora, it should be OK in RHEL6. -- 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
