Re: [PATCH] cifs: mark CONFIG_CIFS_NFSD_EXPORT as BROKEN

[Gerald Carter <jerry-I3iY/6WR96Zg9hUCZPvPmw@public.gmane.org>]

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On 05/23/2011 08:42 AM, Steve French wrote:

> Shirish had done some experiments (and AFAIK has a small patch
> that fixed NFS export over CIFS which works, with the usual restrictions
> about having to return ESTALE if the NFS client tries to access
> an inode which has been flushed from the cache on the server side).
> 
>>> For nfs v3 clients that can't handle ESTALE, we are probably
>>> stuck with having to wait for Samba to implement the flag
>> Flag?
> 
> NTCreateX:  FILE_OPEN_BY_FILE_ID
> 
> IIRC Shirish verified that the Windows client will emit this flag, but their
> server had not gotten around to implementing it (although Samba could
> implement it now that their is an open-by-handle syscall).

Hey Jeff/Steve,

I found in [MS-CIFS] that says a server MUST return STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED
for this option.



Cheers, Jerry


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