On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:36:30AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > 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.
I was thinking they could be stored as extended attributes (along with the dos, system and archive bits). I guess this doesn't solve the POSIX I/O business though. There is probably a way of getting this information using the DMAPI specification which from my 10 minute web search (-: seems to be at least mentioned by other people like SGI, IBM, etc. Tim. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
