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authorAndrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>2004-12-17 06:32:04 +0000
committerGerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>2007-10-10 13:07:28 -0500
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r4245: add a note about using a tdb to store xattr information, so you can
have all Samba4 features on a plain posix filesystem. (This used to be commit a6c4f4b7c9b9a66bde02bd1b63258dbc14dd48c9)
-rw-r--r--howto.txt10
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diff --git a/howto.txt b/howto.txt
index bc3978964e..58c2486a9e 100644
--- a/howto.txt
+++ b/howto.txt
@@ -107,12 +107,18 @@ try these commands:
smbclient //localhost/test -Uadministrator%SOMEPASSWORD
or
- ./script/tests/test_posix.sh //localhost/test administrator
- SOMEPASSWORD
+ ./script/tests/test_posix.sh //localhost/test administrator SOMEPASSWORD
Note that to pass all the tests you would need to be using a
filesystem with user_xattr support. On many Linux systems with an ext3
filesystem this means mounting with the "-o user_xattr"
option. Consult your filesystem and kernel docs for more details.
+If you don't have a filesystem with xattr support, then you can
+simulate it by using the option:
+ posix:eadb = /usr/local/samba/eadb.tdb
+
+that will place all extra file attributes (NT ACLs, DOS EAs, streams
+etc), in that tdb. It is not efficient, and doesn't scale well, but at
+least it gives you a choice when you don't have a modern filesystem.