Re: FAT, NTFS, CIFS and DOS attributes

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Jan 03 2005 - 21:12:35 EST


tridge@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

right. Samba doesn't care much about VFAT, and you don't care about
all the other attributes, so we should get along fine without treading
on each others toes too much.

I explained what Samba4 does as you asked about the user.DosAttrib
xattr that Steve put a placeholder for in cifsfs. That came from
Samba4, so if you suddenly started using it in a different way I would
get a sore toe :-)

Once the Samba LSM module is done and Wine and Samba start working
more together on all these extra bits of meta-data then we could
consider making your ioctl work on all filesystems when the LSM module
is loaded.


Sounds reasonable.

-hpa

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