Jerry, "csc policy" is for client-side offline caching. I think Damir is looking for Samba to support files offlined by storage managers like HSM. Both are called "offline files". One of the reasons the "csc policy" parameter was so named.
Samba could set the 'offline' flag in the files attributes to indicate the file is offlined. This makes applications like Explorer not open and read files just to display the icons (which would force the manager to bring the files online again). A special "offlined" icon is displayed instead. As I understood it (and I could be wrong), indicating offline wasn't a problem, the problem was finding out if a file was offline. I'm sure Damir could code up a custom fix to make Samba do it (using ioctl's or whatever) and distribute the fix as his patch. But I don't see how there could be a generic fix. I remember there was talk of such a thing. Cheers, Shirish ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Damir Dezeljin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 6:38 PM Subject: Re: [Samba] WinNT offline file attribute > On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Damir Dezeljin wrote: > > > Any news about implementation of offline file attributes (also per share > > offline attributes - some .conf parameter)? I looked into > > Samba-3.0alpha17 and Samba-2.2 but I didn't found anything. > > Does "csc policy" in smb.conf(5) help? > > > > > > > cheers, jerry > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hewlett-Packard http://www.hp.com > SAMBA Team http://www.samba.org > -- http://www.plainjoe.org > "Sam's Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours" 2ed. ISBN 0-672-32269-2 > --"I never saved anything for the swim back." Ethan Hawk in Gattaca-- > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba