Re: attempt to re-implement sillyrename for NFS in 2.1.*

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
28 Aug 1997 00:18:05 GMT

Followup to: <k2hgcb2wf7.fsf@zero.aec.at>
By author: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > SMB currently can't carry Unix file attributes too well.
> > I expect the same to be true for NCP.
>
> There is work done on an CIFS extension for Unix file attributes.
> I assume samba/smbfs will be one of the first to implement it.
> And he asked if somebody is 'working on', not for finished solutions ;)
>

Well, until someone also comes up with an extension to handle the Unix
filename space (which the proposed Unix extension does not, it says it
is an independent issue), at least I consider it useless.

Novell, I believe, have supported all kinds of name/attributespaces
for a long time, so it wouldn't surprise me if NCP would handle Unix
correctly with the right server software.

-hpa

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