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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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