Re: support for mknod to windows now in cifs vfs

From: Andrew Bartlett (abartlet_at_samba.org)
Date: 11/20/05

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    To: Steve French <smfrench@austin.rr.com>
Date:	Sun, 20 Nov 2005 14:56:44 +1100

    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 

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