Why Does A CIFS Share Show As NTFS

[mortman]

I have successfully shared a ZFS RAIDZ-2 pool with CIFS. When I open the properties window for this share on my Windows 7 machines on the network, they show the share as an NTFS filesystem. I know that Windows does not support ZFS and I'm assuming that FreeNAS is tricking Windows into thinking its actually an NTFS filesystem when it's actually ZFS.

My question is: Is this a reliability issue?

I'm thinking that Windows will be saving things in a way that will be good for NTFS, but not good for ZFS. Does this also mean that Windows is saving things in some sort of NTFS partition on the Zpool?

If anyone could clear this up for me that would be greatly appreciated.

 

[anodos]

There is no NTFS partition on your server. You do not need to worry about reliability.
Your server talks to your workstation through windows file sharing (CIFS) through a suite of programs collectively referred to as 'samba'.

If you are interested in learning more about samba, you can read an out-of-date book on it here:
http://oreilly.com/openbook/samba/book/ch01_01.html#ch01-what
And read materials on the samba website here:
http://www.samba.org

 

[mortman]

After looking through some of the Samba documentation from your links I feel much better about about this whole thing. Thank you for your response! I greatly appreciate the help.