On 30 May 2012, at 06:42, Pascal Dukers wrote:
Anyone tried setting the hidden option "cifs.ntfs_ignore_unix_security_ops" to "ON" yet? See also https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=3011859
I have needed this option a few times in the past to surpress NFS client errors while working on NTFS qtrees.
We have this set on our filers....
See the post on this list " Subject: strange behaviour, Linux and NFS on NTFS qtree, Date: 11 June 2008 14:56:10 GMT+01:00"
I would not use mixed ever myself, the first question I would ask of anyone considering it is how would you support that data on non netapp filer ( without loosing the access meta data ), do you really want to tie yourself to a single vendor ?
Additionally users get confused by why their carefully crafted acls disappear when the file is edited in unix