On Saturday 2010-07-31 21:03, Trond Myklebust wrote: >On Sat, 2010-07-31 at 12:41 -0600, 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. > >Sigh... So please explain how it would be useful to export that >particular filesystem through _both_ CIFS and NFS? Seems like a reasonable case for, say, a public "ftp server". For example, I keep ftp5.gwdg.de:/ftp/pub mounted, that's a little more convenient than always having to start an ftp cilent. Conversely, since NFS is, well, non-existent on Windows, one would use CIFS there (had it ftp5 opened) to get the same convenience. -- 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
