On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 07:45:39AM -0700, Page, Jeremy wrote:
I know that "back in the day" there where some good reasons not to use mixed mode qtrees if at all possible. We've got folks accessing their home directories via NFS and CIFS depending on which of their workstations they are using so it would be very nice if I could use mixed mode.
What advantage are you looking for over how things work now?
Is it realistic to do this in a production environment?
It's certainly possible. But as you say, there are reasons not to. I've only used it in some very limited situations.
What are the drawbacks?
Users generally aren't comfortable with understanding how it works. It's much easier to say "these files have unix perms" or "windows acls". Then the oddities with accessing them on the foreign system don't seem strange.
The problem is that even though the qtree is mixed, the individual files are not. Especially because you mention folks accessing the same files (home directory) on both systems, you'll likely run into this.
If you do a chmod or something like that to a file, it's turned into a unix permission structure and any ACL on the file is lost. That's why it's really important to understand what you expect from 'mixed'.