Return-Path: Received: from idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca ([64.59.134.9]:25909 "EHLO idcmail-mo2no.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754286Ab0GaSlw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:41:52 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/18] xstat: Add a pair of system calls to make extended file stats available [ver #6] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Andreas Dilger In-Reply-To: <1280513506.12852.22.camel@heimdal.trondhjem.org> Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 12:41:41 -0600 Cc: Phil Pishioneri , 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 Message-Id: <09B770A6-48DB-4296-B6C2-BF46D4DC7E57@dilger.ca> 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> To: Trond Myklebust Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 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. Cheers, Andreas