Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760098Ab0G3SM0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:12:26 -0400 Received: from mail-out1.uio.no ([129.240.10.57]:56850 "EHLO mail-out1.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760085Ab0G3SMN (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:12:13 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] From: Trond Myklebust To: Phil Pishioneri Cc: Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE, Jeremy Allison , Linus Torvalds , David Howells , Jan Engelhardt , linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4C5311F4.2050100@psu.edu> References: <20100715021712.5544.44845.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <30448.1279800887@redhat.com> <20100722162712.GB10352@jeremy-laptop> <1279817930.3621.14.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <20100722180204.GA32008@samba1> <1279825160.3621.71.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <4C5311F4.2050100@psu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:11:46 -0400 Message-ID: <1280513506.12852.22.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.2 (2.30.2-4.fc13) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Ratelimit-Test: rcpts/h 13 msgs/h 1 sum rcpts/h 14 sum msgs/h 1 total rcpts 704 max rcpts/h 20 ratelimit 0 X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL=-5, uiobl=NO, uiouri=NO) X-UiO-Scanned: DB2457AE5CC7BC818B903552960ADEBD40F060CD X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 68.40.206.115 spam_score: -49 maxlevel 80 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 1 total 289 max/h 6 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1059 Lines: 31 On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 13:55 -0400, Phil Pishioneri wrote: > On 7/22/10 2:59 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > The fact remains that most of us would be hard pressed to name an > > application > > Microsoft Office? > > > that requires you to share the same dataset to both > > Windows/CIFS and posix NFS clients. > > NFS client: Mac OS X (NFSv3, since v4 on it is still alpha *cough*). > > > tends to discourage mixing the two environments. > > Or is "discourage" not strong enough term to describe that we shouldn't > be doing this? > > -Phil 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. Trond -- 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/