>> > > Fine. Use reiserfs and don't worry about ctime. >> > >> > Why? Does reiserfs handle ctime in a different >> > way than other linux filesystems? >> >> It's not supposed to given the same instructions >> from clients but it appears to because perhaps it >> elicits different kind of response from Office. >> Maybe Office behaves different when the samba >> server's fs is reiser. > > Quite interesting. Can you describe any particular > case of a different behavior (samba + ext2 vs. samba > + reiser)? I really wonder where the roots of such > differences are.
Sorry to disappoint you, Honza. After I evaluated the major linux fs's I selected reiserfs and used it ever since. It just happens that the owner of this thread described a behaviour of Office software which I couldn't confirm on my own system. Since the only difference was the kind of fs I assumed that perhaps Office treats reiserfs slightly different than ext3. I may be wrong because some other difference in samba setup might as well be the cause but it's only a working hypothesis. It's not as though I said the moon is gonna fall from the sky tonight. Just that Office leaving mtime alone on my system instead of updating it, as it does on other people's system, might, just might, be because when Windows/Office negotiates what it can/can't do with a remote fs the checklist is in some small detail different for samba/reiserfs. >> In any case, reiserfs is superior to or at least as >> good as any other Linux fs. > > I do not discuss quality of the filesystems. I > thought that there were no differences in the way of > using access times between all linux native > filesystems (ext2/3, reiser, xfs, jfs). There shouldn't be any differences. The difference pops up when a 3d party software like Office joins the game. ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
