Re: Isilon-Users CIFS symbolic link behaviour

[Jean-Baptiste Denis]

> Support :
>
> "Firstly, KB 193808 is exactly what I was going to recommend to you, though it
> is not yet externally viewable. The command which it references is isi_gconfig
> registry.Services.lwio.Parameters.Drivers.onefs.SMB2Symlinks=0. This command
> (without quotes) can be run on any node in the cluster, and will change it on
> all nodes."
>
> It did the trick, thank you.

Sorry to dig that up, but I received a scary KB: https://support.emc.com/kb/207782:

ETA 207782: Isilon OneFS 7.2.1.0 and 7.2.0.0 - 7.2.0.2: Deleting a symbolic link
to an individual file may delete the file that the symbolic link points to,
which may result in potential data loss

We are not running OneFS 7.2 but we will in the future.

Due to suggestion found in this thread (KB 193808), I'm wondering of the
implications here. The suggested workaround for the problem mentioned in the
recent KB 207782 implies the modification of the previous settings AND
modification and the client. Moreoever, from my last test a few months ago,
enabling the remote to remote links on the client just work one time. Once
you've entered the directory, the explorer is interpreting the link as a file
and everything breaks...

Am I missing something here ?

I've contacted our DSE about that, but I'd like your inputs on this =)

Jean-Baptiste

[Jean-Baptiste Denis]

Sorry for the last message. Our recent mail server migration ripped of the
message-id header... I was refering to this thread :

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/isilon-user-group/cifs/isilon-user-group/eyas1HkNZcU/iriuvtbkhEQJ

Jean-Baptiste