I have deleted all of the files I was playing with and dont really want to
duplicate the process but I can assure everyone that the hardlinks were
working correctly. In fact, the hardlinks we visible on the windows machine
and worked just fine.
On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Tino Schwarze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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.
>
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