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Operating Systems Linux CIFS on linux ? Post 302122892 by cbkihong on Thursday 21st of June 2007 09:57:32 PM
Old 06-21-2007
Quote:
Originally Posted by the_learner
Oh I get it, its just the size of the inode entry for that directory. Even then, why is it 0 ? Is it because we just cannot say anything about the inode entry for that directory in the remote file system ?
I will be inclined to say, for remote filesystems, that size is many times irrelevant or otherwise meaningless, and quite probably it can just be anything. That value I guess is filesystem/driver-specific. Say, SSHFS may take an entirely different approach from CIFS. As CIFS is designed for Windows-based systems, its protocol may not necessarily honour the "inode size" at all even though you may be mounting a Unix remote partition. As you can see, there are a lot of possible reasons.

If you are really so keen in knowing why that is 0 or 4096 or something else, you should look at the driver source code. It's the only way to know why it is so.
 

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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

local-filesystems

local-filesystems(7)					 Miscellaneous Information Manual				      local-filesystems(7)

NAME

       local-filesystems - event signalling that local filesystems have been mounted

SYNOPSIS

       local-filesystems [ENV]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  local-filesystems  event  is generated by the mountall(8) daemon after it has mounted all local filesystems listed in fstab(5).  moun-
       tall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with  other
       activity.

       This event is typically used by services that must be started in order for remote filesystems, if any, to be activated.	Remember that some
       users may not consider it wrong to place /usr on a remote filesystem.  For most normal services the filesystem(7) event is sufficient.

       This event will never occur before the virtual-filesystems(7) event.

EXAMPLE

       A service that wishes to be running once local filesystems are mounted might use:

	      start on local-filesystems

SEE ALSO

       mounting(7) mounted(7) virtual-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) filesystem(7)

mountall							    2009-12-21						      local-filesystems(7)
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