On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:39:27AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote:> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:30:00PM +0100, Marc JIROU wrote: > > > > So no one is interesting in having symbolic link on a samba server ? > > > > When i was looking for informations, most of people think that symbolic > > link are > > reserved to NTFS and can't exists on a smb server, that why no one ask for. > > > > I'm pretty sure a lot of people are waiting for this ( at least people that > > use unix system ) > > but that's just my personnal opinion > > Well people use symlinks on Samba servers all the time. > But they create and manage them on the UNIX side and > the Windows clients are unaware of them. > > What advantage does having the clients aware of the > link bring ?POSIX clients, eg OS X loves symlinks. -Ralph
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 06:07:37PM +0100, Ralph Boehme wrote:> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:39:27AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:30:00PM +0100, Marc JIROU wrote: > > > > > > So no one is interesting in having symbolic link on a samba server ? > > > > > > When i was looking for informations, most of people think that symbolic > > > link are > > > reserved to NTFS and can't exists on a smb server, that why no one ask for. > > > > > > I'm pretty sure a lot of people are waiting for this ( at least people that > > > use unix system ) > > > but that's just my personnal opinion > > > > Well people use symlinks on Samba servers all the time. > > But they create and manage them on the UNIX side and > > the Windows clients are unaware of them. > > > > What advantage does having the clients aware of the > > link bring ? > > POSIX clients, eg OS X loves symlinks.Well yes, but we already have the infrastructure for that (along with all the security protections that took a while to get right). Adding Windows client-aware symlink means the same level of detail needed for a feature that is disabled by default on Windows and most people are unaware of. I'm not saying we shouldn't do it - just we need to be aware of who needs it and the trade-offs. If a customer pays to have it done I'd be happy to add it, but we have a lot of other features I think have higher priority for expanding Samba use right now (hyperV handle support for example).
2015-12-02 18:10 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org>:> On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 06:07:37PM +0100, Ralph Boehme wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:39:27AM -0800, Jeremy Allison wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 02:30:00PM +0100, Marc JIROU wrote: > > > > > > > > So no one is interesting in having symbolic link on a samba server ? > > > > > > > > When i was looking for informations, most of people think that > symbolic > > > > link are > > > > reserved to NTFS and can't exists on a smb server, that why no one > ask for. > > > > > > > > I'm pretty sure a lot of people are waiting for this ( at least > people that > > > > use unix system ) > > > > but that's just my personnal opinion > > > > > > Well people use symlinks on Samba servers all the time. > > > But they create and manage them on the UNIX side and > > > the Windows clients are unaware of them. > > > > > > What advantage does having the clients aware of the > > > link bring ? > > > > POSIX clients, eg OS X loves symlinks. > > Well yes, but we already have the infrastructure > for that (along with all the security protections > that took a while to get right). > > Adding Windows client-aware symlink means the same > level of detail needed for a feature that is disabled > by default on Windows and most people are unaware of. > > I'm not saying we shouldn't do it - just we need to > be aware of who needs it and the trade-offs. > > If a customer pays to have it done I'd be happy to > add it, but we have a lot of other features I think > have higher priority for expanding Samba use right > now (hyperV handle support for example). >I don't think it a so small feature. Imagine what will happend if you remove it from nfs ? I have to admit that it is certainly less fanzy than other features, but it shoud be in the basic survival kit ... Regards, Marc