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From: Gionatan Danti <g.danti-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
To: linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org>,
	jmcd-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org,
	Gionatan Danti <g.danti-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: Problem with Samba re-share of a CIFS mount
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 19:09:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52FA676B.6070906@assyoma.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140211124536.5fdcb56f-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>

> On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:50:45 +0100
> Gionatan Danti <g.danti-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> The rationale is that windows servers always send a NumberOfLinks value
> of '0' for directories. We have a hack in place that went in around a
> year ago to work around that for (arguably broken) applications that
> try to infer something about an inode that has a zero st_nlink value.
>
> There is no workaround. Either fix the application such that it doesn't
> care or patch the kernel. I'll cc Jim since he did a fair bit of
> looking at this several months ago.
>
> In truth though, resharing a cifs mount is probably not a great
> solution. It sounds like the kind of setup that's going to end up being
> fraught with cache coherency problems...

Ok, I understand now :)

Thank you very much, Jeff.

-- 
Danti Gionatan
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-11 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-11  9:30 Problem with Samba re-share of a CIFS mount Gionatan Danti
     [not found] ` <52F9EDA5.1020004-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-11 15:33   ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]     ` <20140211103302.6d74b90d-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-11 15:50       ` Gionatan Danti
     [not found]         ` <52FA46D5.8020904-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-11 16:59           ` Steve French
     [not found]             ` <CAH2r5mvXh2A_LOm5y7BpgKS6bQhNGjEDR8CYn=K2CnMv01HQeQ-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-11 17:05               ` Gionatan Danti
2014-02-11 17:45           ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]             ` <20140211124536.5fdcb56f-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-11 18:01               ` Steve French
     [not found]                 ` <CAH2r5mvQ590zaniv3cDuu+Do0N9TePasTaEFkrNSAdatTiaZ5Q-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-13 11:37                   ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]                     ` <20140213063738.1b345466-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-13 17:29                       ` Gionatan Danti
     [not found]                         ` <52FD0109.5030909-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-13 18:04                           ` Steve French
     [not found]                             ` <CAH2r5msMZsnC8hxh6=P=f_vsuB=DR_Hv9xyLUEZtG+WpzYU=Sg-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14 10:27                               ` Gionatan Danti
2014-02-13 19:40                           ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]                             ` <20140213144038.2101ea44-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14  2:14                               ` Suresh Jayaraman
     [not found]                                 ` <52FDC978020000F4000256F9-ce6RLXgGx+vWGUEhTRrCg1aTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14 12:06                                   ` Jeff Layton
2014-02-14 10:25                               ` Gionatan Danti
     [not found]                                 ` <52FDEF0D.8010708-N44kj/XGErOonA0d6jMUrA@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14 12:17                                   ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]                                     ` <20140214071724.725d8545-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14 14:10                                       ` Gionatan Danti
2014-02-14 12:08                           ` Jeff Layton
     [not found]                             ` <20140214070846.09904331-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org>
2014-02-14 14:05                               ` Gionatan Danti
2014-02-11 18:09               ` Gionatan Danti [this message]

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