Re: [rdiff-backup-users] CIFS filesystem and symbolic links to other directories

[Andrew Ferguson]

On Jul 6, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Ian Jones wrote:
> > 3) Lastly, what CIFS version are you running? You can get that from  
> > `cat /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData`
> # cat /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData
> Display Internal CIFS Data Structures for Debugging
> ---------------------------------------------------
> CIFS Version 1.52
> Active VFS Requests: 0
> Servers:
> 1) Name: 192.168.71.5  Domain: LEJARDIN Mounts: 1 OS: Unix
>       NOS: Samba 3.0.14a      Capability: 0xe3fd


Well, I'm afraid this is our answer. Samba 3.0.14a was released on  
April 15, 2005. Since CIFS documents indicate that many symlink  
improvements have happened on the Samba-end since then, it looks like  
there's nothing you can do about it, other than disabling symlinks  
when running rdiff-backup. Sorry.

For a product that looks like it was released in the last year, a 3  
year old Samba is shameful. :-(


Andrew