Re: [lopsa-tech] nfs hard links

2013-02-04 Thread Skylar Thompson
Indeed, according to the NFSv3 RFC (RFC1813), the NFS server should set the filesystem attribute to FSF_LINK to true if the filesystem supports hard links. The server should return NFS3ERR_NOTSUP if an attempt to make a hard link on a platform that does not support it. The NFSv4 has some this as a

Re: [lopsa-tech] nfs hard links

2013-02-04 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2013-01-30 at 09:43 -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 02:31:00PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > > I don't happen to have any NFS systems handy right now to test on. > > > > When I google around, everybody's answering the wrong question - I know you > > can't h

Re: [lopsa-tech] nfs hard links

2013-01-30 Thread Dan Ritter
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 02:31:00PM +, Edward Ned Harvey (lopser) wrote: > I don't happen to have any NFS systems handy right now to test on. > > When I google around, everybody's answering the wrong question - I know you > can't hard link local filesystem to a remote filesystem. I want to kn

Re: [lopsa-tech] nfs hard links

2013-01-30 Thread Doug Hughes
Absolutely. We do this extensively for on application. All it cares about is if it is on the same filesystem Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: "Edward Ned Harvey (lopser)" To: "LOPSA Technical Discussions (t...@lopsa.org)" Sent: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 9:32 AM Subject: [