[OpenAFS-win32-devel] New daily builds: Links 'R Us

[Douglas E. Engert]

Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> Douglas E. Engert wrote:
> 
>> What might be nice, is add a show symlink to the Explore AFS shell.
>> or beter still AFS properties that could list symlinks, hardlinks,
>> mount points etc.
>> I see the symlink list -name file can show symlinks.
>>
>> Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> 
> 
> You can tell if an item is a Symlink by selecting it and then displaying
> the AFS->Symlinks menu.  If the item is a Symlink, the menu has a remove
> Symlink option.

OK, that was not obvious. Then what does the add button do? I point at a file,
then click add, but nothing seems to happen. Did it create a symlink to the file?

It would also be nice if Explorer could tell you what it was it linked to.

> 
> I personally thing the AFS->MountPoint->Show item is silly. 

In what way? Should it just show you the volume rather then adding
another menu? It least it shows lets you see the volume name.

It might be nice if when you click on AFS it said its a mount point
or symlink, and what they point to rather then having to go to a submenu
and inferring based on a highlighted item if its a mount point or
a symlink.

  It is
> supposed to tell you if the selected item is a mount point or not.
> Unlike the AFS->Symlink menu, the AFS->MountPoint menu does not 
> conditionally display the "Remove" option based upon whether or not
> the item is a MountPoint.  I think that is a bug that should be fixed
> and the MountPoint->Show item should be removed.

But replace that line with the volume name?

> 
> A hard link is indistinguishable to the client from a file and therefore
> there is nothing to be shown.  One thing that does concern me is that
> the Explorer seems to be unable to display basic file information such
> as size and date for files stored in AFS.   I need to look into why that
> is the case.  My guess is that it is simply a problem caused by a 
> failure to implement one of the required features in the SMB/CIFS server.
> 

What? Explorer seams to show the times and sizes fine on W2K. Although
the Created, Modified and Accessed all appear to be the same.


> Jeffrey Altman
> 

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