On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 07:47:29PM -0700, 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. > > 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.
Yes, the problem is there is no standard POSIX call to tell if a file is offline or not. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
