On Mon, 2019-05-20 at 20:33 +0000, Christof Schmitt wrote: > SMB clients know the state of the files through a OFFLINE bit that is > part of the metadata that is available through the SMB protocol. The > Windows Explorer in particular honors this bit and avoids reading > file data for previews, but the MacOS Finder seems to ignore it and > read file data for previews anyway, triggering recalls. > > The best way would be fixing this on the Mac clients to simply not > read file data for previews for OFFLINE files. So far requests to > Apple support to implement this behavior were unsuccessful, but it > might still be worthwhile to keep pushing this request. >
In the interim would it be possible for the SMB server to detect the client OS and only allow recalls from say Windows. At least this would be in "our" control unlike getting Apple to change the finder.app behaviour. Then tell MacOS users to use Windows if they want to recall files and pin the blame squarely on Apple to your users. I note that Linux is no better at honouring the offline bit in the SMB protocol than MacOS. Oh the irony of Windows being the only main stream IS handling HSM'ed files properly! JAB. -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420 HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt. University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
