On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 13:32:54 -0500 > Steve French <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, IIRC the apple guys mentioned plausible server scenarios for this >> (where we want to mount with unix extensions for symlinks and ownership >> but server can not handle posix path names) >> >> Presumably if the server file system does not support posix path names >> (FAT32, NTFS?) or if we want to restrict the characters (for interoperability >> with Windows clients accessing the same share?) - might be other cases. >> > > In that case though, shouldn't those servers just not set > CIFS_UNIX_POSIX_PATHNAMES_CAP ?
I don't think servers do that (unset the POSIX_PATHNAMES CAP for one share and not others, even assuming the share exports all volumes of the same file system type) for the former case (unless they cant support posix path at all for the whole server), and for the latter case, not sure that the server can know enough information (about other clients which may mount the system) to unset the CAP unilaterally. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
