Re: About seekable files.
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:00:02 +0100 Stef Bon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on a construction which makes various resources like SMB > shares and USB devices direct available > It's based on a fuse module I've developed fuse-workspace-union and > the automounter for linux, autofs. Autofs takes care of the mounting. > Look at > > http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=85148 > > and > > http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/create_workspace > http://linux.bononline.nl/linux/fuse-workspac > > > Now someone asked me that my construction supports seeking in files. > The context was the comparing of connections made through the > kioslaves in KDE, which do not support seeking. > I can imagine the problem, cause the kio slave kio_smb creates a > connection, not a mount. > The cifs filesystem creates a mount. > To be sure, I'm asking this here. > So, do the cifs fs support the seeking in files. > Yes, it should. Note that the current location in the file is tracked on the client and not the server. -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]>