Hi, Last week I ran into a serious problem from my CentOS 7 system using the cifs client to mount a volume on a Windows 2012-R2 server. I posted this a problem on ServerFault ( http://serverfault.com/q/697393 ) a few days ago but I thought that it is usefull to ask here too. I included some screenshots in the serverfault page so that may be useful to have a look at. The essence of my problem is that the local Windows sysadmin turned on a feature to deduplicate files on an existing Windows server volume. After that my Linux system started seeing all the files that were deduplicated as symlinks to what I can only describe as 'chinese letters'. Under Windows 7 everything works fine. The way I currently look at this is that what is apparently some kind of 'copy-on-write hardlink' on the Windows server is interpreted as a softlink by the cifs client in my CentOS system. I have been experimenting with some mount settings but I have been unable to fix this problem (other than turning off the deduplication). My current (Client) setup: - CentOS 7.0 - samba-client-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 - samba-common-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 - samba-libs-4.1.1-38.el7_0.x86_64 - cifs-utils-6.2-7.el7.x86_64 The command in my /etc/fstab \\xxxxxxxx\file\video /var/www/html/wp-content/uploads cifs nouser_xattr,nounix,iocharset=utf8,credentials=/etc/fstab.cifs.sa_video.credentials,_netdev,uid=apache,gid=apache,rw,auto 0 0 How do I get the Linux to see these files as files again? -- Best regards / Met vriendelijke groeten, Niels Basjes -- 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
