Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754877Ab0GaSsn (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:48:43 -0400 Received: from borg.medozas.de ([188.40.89.202]:55226 "EHLO borg.medozas.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751083Ab0GaSsl (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:48:41 -0400 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 20:48:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Andreas Dilger cc: Trond Myklebust , Phil Pishioneri , Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE, Jeremy Allison , Linus Torvalds , David Howells , 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] In-Reply-To: <09B770A6-48DB-4296-B6C2-BF46D4DC7E57@dilger.ca> Message-ID: 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> <1280513506.12852.22.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> <09B770A6-48DB-4296-B6C2-BF46D4DC7E57@dilger.ca> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LSU 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 996 Lines: 20 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-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/