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From:	Peter Rehley <peter AT rehley DOT net>
Subject:	Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot (problem with inode numbers)
Date:	Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:34:53 -0800
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On Dec 2, 2005, at 3:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Dec  1 15:38, Peter Rehley wrote:
>> On Dec 1, 2005, at 1:38 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec  1 13:01, Peter Rehley wrote:
>>>>  It only appears to be a problem
>>>> when I have a mac os x share mounted to a drive on windows.     
>>>> When I
>>>> try with a windows share or a linux share I don't seem to have the
>>>> problem.
>>>>
>>>> The problem that I'm seeing is that the inode value isn't unique  
>>>> when
>>>> listing a directory (or using any program that uses the inode  
>>>> value).
>>>
>>> Do I understand you right that this only happens for  
>>> directories?  The
>>> normal file inodes are looking ok?
>> No, it also happens for files too.
>
> $%^&
>
>>> The output of both tests might be helpful.
>> Output is attached.
>
> Well, the volume information looks exactly as usual for a remote Samba
> drive.
>
> The problem is, that your Samba version apparently screws up the inode
> information and we have re-enabled using the inode numbers sent from
> remote file systems which are supposed to be capable of that.  For  
> this
> we use the HAS_PERSISTENT_ACLS property.
>
> What Samba version is your Mac OS X using?  I'm using 3.0.20a for  
> which
> the inode information is useable.  Is Samba a part of the OS  
> packages or
> did you install it from an external source?  Is it a rather old one?
> Can you upgrade?  The problem is that there's no way for us to  
> distinguish
> between a newer and an older version of Samba.  I would rather not  
> lose
> the inode information when available.
>
I'm using mac os x 10.4.3 which is using samba version 3.0.10.  So  
it's not that old.  However, I did find one reference that implied  
that mac did something funny for acl's.

I'm going to try install a non-apple version of samba and see what  
happens.
>
> Corinna
>
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