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From: Phil Pishioneri on 30 Jul 2010 16:10 On 7/22/10 2:59 PM, Trond Myklebust wrote: > The fact remains that most of us would be hard pressed to name an > application Microsoft Office? > that requires you to share the same dataset to both > Windows/CIFS and posix NFS clients. NFS client: Mac OS X (NFSv3, since v4 on it is still alpha *cough*). > tends to discourage mixing the two environments. Or is "discourage" not strong enough term to describe that we shouldn't be doing this? -Phil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Jan Engelhardt on 31 Jul 2010 04:10 On Friday 2010-07-30 23:22, utz lehmann wrote: >On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> But the fact is, th Unix ctime semantics are insane and largely >> useless. There's a damn good reason almost nobody uses ctime under >> unix. >> >> So what I'm suggesting is that we have a flag - either per-process or >> per-mount - that just says "use windows semantics for ctime". > >When abusing an existing time stamp use atime not ctime please. >ctime has it's uses. atime was just a mistake and is nearly useless. MUAs make use of atime. >And with noatime we already have creation time semantics for atime. noatime was a late afterthought, and because it can interfere with some programs, relatime came along too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
From: Jan Engelhardt on 13 Aug 2010 15:10
On Friday 2010-08-13 19:54, Jeremy Allison wrote: >On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 08:54:32AM -0400, J. Bruce Fields wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 06:05:01AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote: >> > We don't need to ape Windows in everything. >> > The coming ACL disaster will show that (we will go from an ACL >> > model that is slightly too complex to use, to one that is impossibly >> > complex to use :-). >> >> Care to elaborate? > >POSIX ACLs -> RichACLs (NT-style). Not criticising Andreas here, >people are asking for this. But Windows ACLs are a nightmare >beyond human comprehension :-). In the "too complex to be >usable" camp. Well, for one, ACLs in NT can be recursive IIRC. You can't say that of Linux ACLs - instead you have to setfacl -R and setfacl -Rd to give one user access to a directory and all its subdirs including future new inodes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |