On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:25:09AM +0200, Damir Dezeljin wrote: > Hi all, > > Back in 2002 I opened a discussion on the samba-technical mailing list > regarding the WinNT FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE ( > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2002-April/020969.html). > > Meanwhile some FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE handling was implemented in the > 'trunk' Samba. Currently (Samba 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.4) provides the 'dmapi > support' option for representing the mentioned attribute. Unfortunately it > seems the option is supported only on XFS using the libdm0. Additionally it > seems only SUSE / SLES ships with the mentioned support built into Samba. > > Well ... I'm again interested in the mentioned option and I'm wondering if > there is a way to say 'add the FILE_ATTRIBUTE_OFFLINE flag' for all files in > the specified share. > Of course it would be even better if I could implement a utility / dmapi > interface / or something else Samba could use to figure out which files I > would like to mark as offline on the HSM file system I'm using or any other > kernel / FUSE / ... file system.
You might want to look at Samba 3.2: There we have a is_offline VFS operation, and it would be trivial to add a module that always returns true. Volker
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