RE: cp command fails when copying from a network drive

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

On 23 November 2006 16:56, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Nov 23 16:41, Dave Korn wrote:
>> On 23 November 2006 15:03, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 
>>> On Nov 23 11:52, John Cooper wrote:
>>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>  > Can you please make an experiment?  Just call `ls -i' a couple of
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, the inode numbers do differ:
>>> 
>>> Yeah, that was expected.  Thanks for confirming.
>>> 
>>> I can't stop wondering what people thin when implementing "random" file
>>> ids resp. inode numbers.  Stuff like that should be reported back to
>>> manufacturer *hint* *hint*
>> 
>>   We have a netapp here, and it doesn't do that at all.
>> 
>>   John, do you have the netapp 'SecureShare' software installed on the PC
>> you're using?
> 
> Dave, can you please send the getvolinfo output for this netapp so that
> we can look if it's using the same flags?

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/artimi/software/firmware $ ./getvolinfo.exe  /win/t
rootdir: T:\
Volume Name        : <CIFS.HOMEDIR>
Serial Number      : 0
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname     : <FAT>
Flags:
  FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : TRUE
  FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
  FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK        : TRUE
  FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS        : FALSE
  FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION       : FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS          : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS    : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION    : FALSE
  FILE_NAMED_STREAMS          : TRUE
  FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME       : FALSE
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> This reminds me of the situation we have with older and newer Samba
> versions.  John and Dave, I have no experience with this netapp stuff
> and I also have no access to it.  Could you both please somehow compare
> whether this might be a version problem or actually a complete different
> product?  We should have some data points before making a decision in
> favor of or against using the real inode numbers.

  This is all the version info that I could find.


  Software version:  Data ONTAP Release 7.2.
  NetApp Release 7.2: Mon Jul 31 15:51:19 PDT 2006
  Model 	FAS250

    cheers,
      DaveK
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