On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 13:55 -0600, Steve French wrote: > Andrew Bartlett wrote: > > On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 22:30 -0600, Steve French wrote: > > > > > I added the code to cifs vfs to enable it do mknod of block and > > > chardevice even if the server does not support the Unix extensions (such > > > as Windows). This requires the "sfu" mount option to be specified > > > > > > > Any reason why this isn't on by default? > > > > Andrew Bartlett > > > > 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 -- 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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