To do both at the same time is an excellant idea/recommendation. -- Rick On 07/12/09 21:36, Alan.M.Wright wrote: > From a practical standpoint, 2009/387 would also require a new system > attribute. It would be ideal if we could add both the offline and reparse > system attributes at the same time, which would be timely for this case. > > Alan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alan.M.Wright" <amw at sun.com <mailto:amw at sun.com>> > To: <Richard.Matthews at Sun.COM <mailto:Richard.Matthews at Sun.COM>> > Cc: <PSARC-ext at sun.com <mailto:PSARC-ext at sun.com>>; "Jiri Sasek - RPE > Prague" <Jiri.Sasek at Sun.COM <mailto:Jiri.Sasek at Sun.COM>>; "Daniel > Hain" <dhain at sac.sfbay.sun.com <mailto:dhain at sac.sfbay.sun.com>> > Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 6:52 PM > Subject: Re: Support off-line files on SAM-QFS for Samba in > Solaris[PSARC/2009/381 FastTrack timeout 07/13/2009] > > > Having a TCR against Samba in order to allow this (or any) fasttrack > > to be approved on the basis that the fasttrack is not the right solution > > but resolves a customer problem seems a bit strange to me. > > > > If we agree that adding a system attribute is the appropriate > solution, we > > should pursue that now. The fact that SAMFS would require a change > > to support system attributes shouldn't really have a bearing on > selecting > > the appropriate architectural solution, and if that's a concern > perhaps we > > can talk about that offline. > > > > Alan > > -- > > > > Rick Matthews wrote: > >> Darren, > >> > >> I agree with Alan's proposal that the existing system extended > >> attributes be expanded > >> to include "offline" or whatever the appropriate tag could be. This > >> would require a change > >> to SAM-QFS to support Solaris extended attributes in at least the case > >> of that flag (a SAM-QFS > >> project/case, I'd guess) and modifying the interfaces introduced in > >> PSARC/2007/315 to include > >> the newly defined flag. > >> This case appears to be asking to use existing interfaces of SAM-QFS > >> to cause the > >> Solaris provided samba to detect a condition that is causing the > >> described customer > >> problem, and mitigate it. The resultant FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE > within the > >> SMB_QUERY_FILE_BASIC_INFO appears to be standard (at least in the SNIA > >> document). > >> I would think that advise to the PAC about modifying SAM-QFS to at > >> least support > >> an system extended attribute for offline, and for some unknown group > >> to add that to > >> the existing system extended attributes would be an appropriate > response. > >> In the mean time, I would think this case could be approved with a > >> TCR to modify > >> the version of Samba shipped by Sun when the architecturally > >> appropriate interfaces > >> (those using the existing infrastructure described in PSARC/2007/315) > >> exist in Sun > >> current and future HSM products. > >> I could help add this to the general opinion, or add it as a minority > >> opinion. > >> == > >> Rick > >> > >> On 07/ 9/09 04:33 AM, Darren J Moffat wrote: > >>> Alan.M.Wright wrote: > >>>> Providing this as a temporary solution to relieve a customer problem > >>>> is excellent. My disagreement is that it should be committed as a > >>>> long term solution for offline support when we already have a defined > >>>> system attribute mechanism that could be used to solve the problem > >>>> via libc. > >>> > >>> Given the above I'm derailing this case for the purpose of writing an > >>> opinion with Advice to fund the above mentioned project and to point > >>> out the issue of adding Solaris/Sun functionality to Samba with no > >>> planned match for the in kernel CIFS server. > >>> > >>> PSARC members please are you willing to vote based on the above our > >>> would you like to see draft opinion text first. I've marked the > >>> case as "waiting need vote" for now. > >>> > >>> Note that this is *derail* not *deny* (though depending on the vote > >>> it could be but I doubt it). > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-arc mailing list > > opensolaris-arc at opensolaris.org <mailto:opensolaris-arc at > > opensolaris.org> > >
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