Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
'm using the standard samba and kernel that came installed with Ubuntu 5.10. When I searched around on the web to find out when this new ability had come around, it looked like it's been there for quite a while, I had just never noticed that groups/users etc had been happy. I think I read that almost all 2.6 kernels had cifs unix extensions. What I'm using: kernel-2.6.12-9 (ubuntu) samba-3.0.14a-6ubuntu1 The other great part.. There really wasn't any configuration to do... I actually couldn't figure out how to turn it off if I wanted to. You probably want to look into that data corruption issue that someone was mentioning. I haven't really tested samba under an HA scenario. I'm not sure how any file sharing system can prevent file corruption under a drbd setup without seriously impacting performance. I've just always assumed we mostly strive to prevent filesystem corruption (except for the DB w/ transactions scenario). -Jeff On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 10:27 -0500, Todd Denniston wrote: > jeffb wrote: > > Well, Samba might not be as bad as you would think. I've used samba for > > years, and I got very used to some of it's older limitations, but with > > CIFS, and the unix extensions, I recently discovered that samba was > > running very much like NFS does. File ownership and permissions all > > come across as they should (as long as the UID's and GID's on the > > systems match), and tools like chmod work just as they do for local > > drives. > > > > I wouldn't be afraid of giving samba/cifs with the unix extensions a > > serious try. > > > > -Jeff > > > > Is there a HOWTO (or subsection thereof) you can point us to for setting up > these "unix extensions"? > And what version of Samba are you using to accomplish the use of them? > > Thanks. >