tags 7638 notabug close 7638 thanks Eric Blake wrote: > [please keep the list in the loop] > > On 12/14/2010 10:09 PM, Yixuan Huang wrote: >> Dear Eric, >> Thanks for your response. >> I ran ln on sles11 x64, and mount windos shared folder through mount -t cifs. >> My scripts will do ln -s xx xx.so, so it will report error and said like: >> tar: pegasus/lib/libpegcommon.so: Cannot create symlink to >> `libpegcommon.so.1': Operation not supported > > Thanks for the additional information. It sounds like you are running > into the issue on the Linux side of things, where you are locating files > on a cifs mount hosted natively by Windows. Remember, Windows has very > poor symlink support, and cifs is accurately reporting that it cannot > create a symlink because the underlying file system on the native > Windows side can't represent symlinks. This is not a bug in ln, but a > fundamental limitation of your choice of file system.
Closing as "notabug".
