Hi dan, On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 12:14:41AM -0600, dan wrote:
Thanks for the work. This clears things up. > I did a test on ubuntu 8.04 > > created a samba share at /root/share > > i installed smbfs and then mounted that share via > > mount -t smbfs //localhost/share /mnt/sharetest > cd /mnt/sharetest > touch x > ln x y > ls /root/share > and I see x and y! > echo 12345 > /mnt/sharetest/x > cat /root/share/x > shows 12345 > cat /root/share/y > shows 12345 What does ls -l /root/share/x show? Does it correctly show the link count to be 2? > so there is your proof and confirmation. > > also, NTFS does support hardlinks. You can mount an NTFS filesystem with > samba and use standard linux/unix tools to make a hardlink. > > example > > mkdir /mnt/ntfse > mount -t smbfs //condor/e /mnt/ntfse > cd /mnt/ntfse > echo 12345 > 1 > ln 1 2 > cat 1 > >12345 > cat 2 > >12345 Please show us an ls -l output, too. > Some claim that NFS is faster than samba, but others say samba is faster. > It seems like the the OS involved on each side is the determining factor, > and there is no chart that I could find to determin which was faster. I recently read some benchmarks (IIRC, Felix von Leitner did them) and one of the conclusions was that M$s Samba implementation is slow. A Samba on Linux managed to saturate a 1 GBit connection easliy without requiring too much CPU power. He was quite surprised about that (me too). HTH, Tino. -- „What we resist, persists.” (Zen saying) www.craniosacralzentrum.de www.forteego.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
