Subject: Re: support for mknod to windows now in cifs vfs
From: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
To: Steve French <smfrench@austin.rr.com>
Cc: mkoeppe@gmx.de, linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org,
       samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:56:44 +1100
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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
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> 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

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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

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