On Saturday 2010-07-31 20:41, Andreas Dilger wrote: >On 2010-07-30, at 12:11, Trond Myklebust wrote: >> Your Mac has a perfectly functional CIFS client, as do your Linux boxes. >> They both interoperate just fine with Samba, and would presumably >> continue to do so if someone were to decide to reuse the ctime field on >> your Samba box as storage for a create time. > >CIFS doesn't support symlinks (they just appear as the referenced >file), so I've had applications that scan the filesystem recurse >indefinitely due to symlinked directories on a CIFS share appearing >as hard-linked directories on the client. This doesn't happen when >the filesystem is accessed via NFS. This shouldn't go on indefinitely - PATH_MAX is reached at some point. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
