From: "Steve French" <smfrench@gmail.com>
To: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mount options for selectively disabling parts of CIFS Unix Extensions
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:13:25 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <524f69650707170713v37d917a3m87218be636c24025@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070717124936.GD12244@fieldses.org>
One example (Samba bug # 2008) is so that Samba will follow symlinks
on the server side (rather than have the client resolve them).
On 7/17/07, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 05:40:46PM -0500, Steve French wrote:
> > I have seen various requests from users to disable part of the CIFS
> > Unix Extensions on mount (in some cases fall back to the more
> > primitive Windows behavior) but am wondering how far down this line of
> > thought I should go ...
>
> Why do they want to do that? Just curious.
>
> --b.
>
--
Thanks,
Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-17 14:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-16 22:40 mount options for selectively disabling parts of CIFS Unix Extensions Steve French
2007-07-16 23:11 ` Steve French
2007-07-17 11:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-07-17 11:57 ` [linux-cifs-client] " Jeff Layton
2007-07-17 18:49 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-07-17 22:09 ` Steve French
2007-07-18 2:17 ` Trond Myklebust
2007-07-17 12:49 ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-07-17 14:13 ` Steve French [this message]
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