-----Original Message----- From: Michael Bernardoff [mailto:bmichael@netapp.com] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:58 PM To: Knut Kristan Weber Subject: RE: move data within CIFS
You might also try to move the files via NFS if you've a license for it. You'll need to use usermapping to be able to do so but I think it's doable (sorry no time for reproduction of the thing)
Please keep in mind to create a snapshot before moving things so reback is easy.
Thanks Michael, we have no NFS here, and even if we had, I would never try it out. First, I cannot imagine how NFS should work where CIFS does not while handling CIFS-data. The scond reason is, what happens to spaces, special characters, ... And third, wo should NFS handle the nested group permissions of CIFS. With Unix-schema owner/group/world the filer would calculate the permissions for the given user - and after the copy all detailed ACL-information would be lost.
Kind reagds Knut