So, how does Windows then deal with storing those on non-NTFS filesystem? NFS or FAT32 usb sticks? Etc. Does all of that just break, does it do some sort of de-reference to the actual file, or do something akin to the mac data/resource fork splitting ?
On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 12:43:07PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Dave Botsch <[email protected]> writes: > > > What would be the suggested resolution from Microsoft? > > > Any reason OAFSWin can't add support for these reparse points? > > You can't do that only in the Windows client, at least if I'm > understanding the nature of reparse points correctly. The AFS file server > would also have to be able to store the reparse point. Think of it as > akin to a UNIX device file. So this means new data structures available > inside AFS volumes, which has rather wide-ranging implementation effects. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > _______________________________________________ > OpenAFS-info mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info -- ******************************** David William Botsch Programmer/Analyst CNF Computing [email protected] ******************************** _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
