Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751194AbVKTD42 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:56:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751196AbVKTD42 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:56:28 -0500 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:52185 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751194AbVKTD42 (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Nov 2005 22:56:28 -0500 Subject: Re: support for mknod to windows now in cifs vfs From: Andrew Bartlett To: Steve French Cc: mkoeppe@gmx.de, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <437F8339.3060502@austin.rr.com> References: <437EAA7F.5050907@austin.rr.com> <1132404007.4397.3.camel@amy.flyaway.abartlet.net> <437F8339.3060502@austin.rr.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-w/QIDqAaDhFqksqcsEG+" Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:56:44 +1100 Message-Id: <1132459005.17693.21.camel@amy.flyaway.abartlet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1824 Lines: 54 --=-w/QIDqAaDhFqksqcsEG+ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 13:55 -0600, Steve French wrote: > Andrew Bartlett wrote:=20 > > On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 22:30 -0600, Steve French wrote: > > =20 > > > I added the code to cifs vfs to enable it do mknod of block and=20 > > > chardevice even if the server does not support the Unix extensions (s= uch=20 > > > as Windows). This requires the "sfu" mount option to be specified=20 > > > =20 > >=20 > > Any reason why this isn't on by default?=20 > >=20 > > Andrew Bartlett > > =20 >=20 > I agree with most of Martin's points - even on Windows there are a few > (possibly with Vista) three ways e.g. to do symlinks. Although sfu is > the most important way to do it it is a bit slower too. Isn't there also the mac 'magic file size' thing too? Did that change, or should we also cope with servers holding those files? Andrew Bartlett --=20 Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net --=-w/QIDqAaDhFqksqcsEG+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDf/P8z4A8Wyi0NrsRAh00AJ427jft3Po76caa7IbSs5j/GxDGrACdHODa 87CEb5Z9CXdTSf3H5IvLfy8= =1+/A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-w/QIDqAaDhFqksqcsEG+-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/