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Operating Systems Linux CIFS on linux ? Post 302122607 by the_learner on Wednesday 20th of June 2007 08:40:29 PM
Old 06-20-2007
CIFS on linux ?

I have a program which reads all the files in a path given as argument into a buffer (And does something with it). The program makes use of several file processing APIs such as: stat(), fopen(), read() etc..

Now, it is possible that the directory specified by the path is actually a volume which is nfs mounted from a filer. Now, as far as I can tell it does not make any difference to the program whether the path contains files that are local to the client or if it is nfs mounted from the filer.

What I want to know is whether the program will work if CIFS (or SMBFS) was used to mount the volume. (or any other protocol other than NFS)


(I thought cifs was only for windows, but turns out you can use cifs to mount a volume on a linux machine, I tried using cifs to mount the volume but my kernel does not support it.

% r mount -t cifs sys1:/vol/vol1 ~/dir1
mount: fs type cifs not supported by kernel)

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MOUNT.NFS(8)                                                  System Manager's Manual                                                 MOUNT.NFS(8)

NAME
mount.nfs, mount.nfs4 - mount a Network File System SYNOPSIS
mount.nfs remotetarget dir [-rvVwfnsh ] [-o options] DESCRIPTION
mount.nfs is a part of nfs(5) utilities package, which provides NFS client functionality. mount.nfs is meant to be used by the mount(8) command for mounting NFS shares. This subcommand, however, can also be used as a standalone command with limited functionality. remotetarget is a server share usually in the form of servername:/path/to/share. dir is the directory on which the file system is to be mounted. Under Linux 2.6.32 and later kernel versions, mount.nfs can mount all NFS file system versions. Under earlier Linux kernel versions, mount.nfs4 must be used for mounting NFSv4 file systems while mount.nfs must be used for NFSv3 and v2. OPTIONS
-r Mount file system readonly. -v Be verbose. -V Print version. -w Mount file system read-write. -f Fake mount. Don't actually call the mount system call. -n Do not update /etc/mtab. By default, an entry is created in /etc/mtab for every mounted file system. Use this option to skip making an entry. -s Tolerate sloppy mount options rather than fail. -h Print help message. nfsoptions Refer to nfs(5) or mount(8) manual pages. NOTE
For further information please refer nfs(5) and mount(8) manual pages. FILES
/etc/fstab file system table /etc/mtab table of mounted file systems SEE ALSO
nfs(5), mount(8), AUTHOR
Amit Gud <agud@redhat.com> 5 Jun 2006 MOUNT.NFS(8)
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