I need to set up some CIFS shares manually because the wizard can't set up my pool the way I need it. But I did run the wizard first to try to observe and understand the default settings.
With the wizard, CIFS shares are set up with VFS objects of aio_pthread and streams_xattr (and no other VFS objects, it appears).
When setting up a CIFS share manually, the only VFS objects listed as available are the five described in the documentation; aio_pthread and streams_xattr are not on the list.
I can see from previous forum postings that aio_pthread may no longer be useful (and I'm not sure what it does anyway). I think I would like to have streams_xattr, though, to try to preserve any small ADSes which exist in my current NTFS files. (I will admit that I don't know what's in those streams, or whether I really need them, but for example, about half of my music files have them, so I am slightly anxious about losing them.)
My questions:
Thanks,
--Stu
With the wizard, CIFS shares are set up with VFS objects of aio_pthread and streams_xattr (and no other VFS objects, it appears).
When setting up a CIFS share manually, the only VFS objects listed as available are the five described in the documentation; aio_pthread and streams_xattr are not on the list.
I can see from previous forum postings that aio_pthread may no longer be useful (and I'm not sure what it does anyway). I think I would like to have streams_xattr, though, to try to preserve any small ADSes which exist in my current NTFS files. (I will admit that I don't know what's in those streams, or whether I really need them, but for example, about half of my music files have them, so I am slightly anxious about losing them.)
My questions:
- Is it intentional that the wizard puts these two objects in there, but that they are not available on the list when manually setting up the CIFS share?
- If not intentional, should they appear on the list (along with the other five), or alternatively, should they be removed from the wizard?
- If I want to include streams_xattr, is it possible to specify an auxiliary parameter that would accomplish that (and not trash any other needed parameters)? Would that parameter simply be "vfs objects = streams_xattr" or is it more complicated than that?
- Or, should I just chill and let those ADSes disappear?
Thanks,
--Stu