Out of curiosity what happens when you mount with smb2 or later (e.g. vers=2.1 on mount) - I expect that they will be recognized differently. Copy on write symlinks are reparse points but I would expect them to look like empty directories. On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Niels Basjes <Niels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 -- Thanks, Steve -- 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
