Jeremy Allison wrote:
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:24:13PM -0800, Kathy wrote:
Hello --
We have a Solaris 10 ZFS server running Samba with "follow
symlinks=yes" set. We're noticing that if you delete (via Samba) a
file that is a symbolic link pointing to a subdirectory somewhere,
with files in that subdir, it will not only delete the symbolic link
file, but also delete the files in the target subdirectory. On Unix,
if you delete a symbolic link, it will leave the original target
subdir (and its files) untouched. This behavior only seems to happen
if the symlink is pointing to a populated subdirectory. If you have a
symlink that points to a file and delete the symlink via Samba, the
original file remains intact. Does anyone know of a way to get around
this particular behavior? We would like it to behave as in Unix.
Only the symlink gets deleted and not the subdir/files it was pointing
at.
What version of Samba ?
Jeremy
This sounds a bit like the problem we (EditShare) discovered and that
you patched a few years ago-- in the 3.0.14 days I think. Remember...
We discovered a sort of delayed reaction. If you deleted a symlink to a
file that some other user had open, when both users finally closed the
file the FILE would get deleted rather than the SYMLINK.
Could it be related?
Andy Liebman
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