samba - Aug 2003 - Re: Samba vs. Windows : significant difference intimestamp handling ?

>> > > ... On my PCs the mtime remains unmodified. 
>> > > It's a weird thing if it happens under normal 
>> > > circumstances ... But if it only happens when
>> > > you fake the identity from within the Office 
>> > > programs, well, I wouldn't bother really.
>> > >
>> > I totally agree !
>>
>> Fine. Use reiserfs and don't worry about ctime.
>
>Why? Does reiserfs handle ctime in a different way 
>than other linux filesystems?
It's not supposed to given the same instructions from
clients but it appears to because perhaps it elicits
different kind of response from Office. Maybe Office
behaves different when the samba server's fs is
reiser.

In any case, reiserfs is superior to or at least as
good as any other Linux fs.


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> > > Fine. Use reiserfs and don't worry about ctime.
> >
> > Why? Does reiserfs handle ctime in a different way than other linux
> > filesystems?
>
> It's not supposed to given the same instructions from clients but it
> appears to because perhaps it elicits different kind of response from
> Office. Maybe Office behaves different when the samba server's fs is
> reiser.
Quite interesting. Can you describe any particular case of a different
behavior (samba + ext2 vs. samba + reiser)? I really wonder where the
roots of such differences are.
> In any case, reiserfs is superior to or at least as good as any other
> Linux fs.
I do not discuss quality of the filesystems. I thought that there were no
differences in the way of using access times between all linux native
filesystems (ext2/3, reiser, xfs, jfs).

-- Honza Houstek