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Re: NTFS vs. Samba

On Aug 30 00:05, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 06:21:05PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Aug 29 11:49, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >> One could have an smbntea that works on remote FAT (?) and real
> >> remote NTPS but not on samba... 
> >
> >Oh no, please.  Let's not expand ntea functionality.  What is that
> >fake good for?
> 
> In that vein, should we eliminate ntea functionality entirely?  It
> creates huge files on FAT* partitions and is not required for non-FAT.
> 
> Why do we need it?

Really, I don't know.  Personally I'd be in favor of removing it (together
with EA for symlinks on NTFS).


Corinna

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