On Jan 12 08:09, Nellis, Kenneth wrote: > From: Corinna Vinschen > > See the User's Guide here: > > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table > > > > Try to mount the Q: drive with the "ihash' option, for instance: > > > > $ cat >> /etc/fstab.c/knellis << EOF > > Q: /qnx stone_age_old_samba binary,ihash 0 0 > > EOF > > $ mount -a > > > > That should help. I'm not really keen to add more hardcoded support > > for such old filesystems. > > Yeah, thanx for that, however I get the same result after correcting > "fstab.c" to "fstab.d". I now have: > > knel...@cobqdppj1 ~ > $ mount | grep ^Q > Q: on /qnx type smbfs (binary,ihash,user) > > knel...@cobqdppj1 ~ > $ > > Interestingly enough, compare what works and what doesn't: > > FAILS: cp /cygdrive/q/knellis/xyz xyz > WORKS: cat /cygdrive/q/knellis/xyz > xyz
Erm... you have to use the /qnx path, rather than /cygdrive/q: cp /qnx/knellis/xyz xyz cat /qnx/knellis/xyz > xyz Other than that, cat doesn't perform the same integrity checks as cp. > Also, I wouldn't ask you to modify Cygwin to support this ancient > protocol, but I'm still wondering what I have to downgrade to > get what worked some number of weeks ago. I've downgraded > coreutils to 8.5-2 and cygwin to 1.7.6, but neither helped. > Curious about what else could have caused this change in > behavior. Would welcome advice on what else I can try. No idea when and where this changed, sorry. Out of curiosity, what's the output of `mount'? Does it recognize /cygdrive/q as smbfs or as ntfs? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
