On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 09:05:02AM +0200, Thomas Flaig wrote: > > Samba generally will work with any filesystem, the only condition is > > that it has to be posix compatible. > Do you really mean any filesystem or only any local filesystem?
Any file system that is posix compatible and *works*. > I thought that nfs-filsystems should be a posix compatible filesystem. Or > is nfs not posix compatible? I can't really speculate about Posix compatibility of NFS, this probably very much depends on the specific implementation. The problem with NFS is that the implementations just suck. For example yesterday I heard a specific implementation pretty quickly locks up hard when you run Tridge's pingpong test (a test doing nothing but fcntl locks with intermixed reads and writes), even as a normal user. Samba has no way to deal with this kind of deficiency. Yes, in theory it should work, but there are so many problems that at least I just refuse to look into them. Others from the Samba Team I talked to feel very similar. And for me, that's a pretty good definition of "not supported". Volker
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