Hello all, I wonder if there is anything like a request and response for filesystem capabilities over the CIFS protocol?
To make a long story short, I am trying to use the free VMWare Converter 4.0.1 to make a VMWare machine from a physical Windows host, then convert its disk image to VirtualBox with SUNWqemu so as to run the Windows box on Solaris. That procedure is well "documented" on relevant forums and blogs, and I've seen it work myself. There's one caveat however - the disk image conversion works for single-file large disk images. VMWare protects the user from FAT filesystems, and if the Converter can't detect that filesystem supports large files, it forcefully reverts to disk images split into 2Gb files. And I've failed several attempts to somehow import the split disk images. First I thought it was a matter of networked share versus local NTFS disk on the Windows box. But then I discovered that if I try to save the disk images to a share shared off a Windows 2003 server's NTFS partition, the Converter does permit saving single large files. So the question becomes - why doesn't ZFS/CIFS report to VMWare Converter something similar, that it does indeed support large files? On a side note, it would also be interesting to see the ZFS compressed files reported as such to Windows - with original/on-disk byte counts reported, and so on. Just like it does happen with NTFS-based shares, as well. Is it something I haven't configured, or something that the great OpenSolaris team has not yet implemented? Is it at least "on the radar"? ;) Thanks, //Jim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ cifs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/cifs-discuss
