On Thu, 05 Nov 1998 11:21:38 CST, David Drum david@more.net wrote:

I will admit that file system theory is not that different from UNIX to PC. Therefore you are correct. My question then is: Why is this only a problem now? How were UNIX users able to manage with one default behavior all this time? Why can't the CIFS users just RTFM and configure the NetApp so that it works the way they need? NetApp is thumbing its nose at the installed base of (UNIX) users, who will now have to restore the old default configuration. Just my Microsoft rant of the day.

We mount each user's home directory as /home/whatever, so it does actually cause a problem (with things such as du). That is to say it's a problem for both PC and UNIX users. You could argue that the solution should be on the client side, but until that comes, it's nice that the server offers us an option. But you can't argue that Windows is more broken than UNIX in this case.