On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Shirish Kalele wrote: > 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.
Ah...I wonfered about that. > 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. Makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.... 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
