Oddities with file deletion on CIFS drive

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Wednesday, September 08, 2010 10:50 PM -0400 "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" 
<reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:

> Yeah, there's been plenty of these network appliances that really foul up
> their implementation of permissions.  MVFS and NetApp are a couple in the
> past that have had problems.  If you have the csih package installed, run
> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo <drive letter>:/ and send the results here.  And
> then wait for the groans. ;-)

Ok, here is the results. ;)

$ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo /cygdrive/z
Device Type        : 7
Characteristics    : 10
Volume Name        : <121>
Serial Number      : 27
Max Filenamelength : 255
Filesystemname     : <NTFS>
Flags              : 4007e
  FILE_CASE_SENSITIVE_SEARCH  : FALSE
  FILE_CASE_PRESERVED_NAMES   : TRUE
  FILE_UNICODE_ON_DISK        : TRUE
  FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS        : TRUE
  FILE_FILE_COMPRESSION       : TRUE
  FILE_VOLUME_QUOTAS          : TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES  : TRUE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REPARSE_POINTS: FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_REMOTE_STORAGE: FALSE
  FILE_VOLUME_IS_COMPRESSED   : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_OBJECT_IDS    : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_ENCRYPTION    : FALSE
  FILE_NAMED_STREAMS          : TRUE
  FILE_READ_ONLY_VOLUME       : FALSE
  FILE_SEQUENTIAL_WRITE_ONCE  : FALSE
  FILE_SUPPORTS_TRANSACTIONS  : FALSE

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Engineer
Zimbra, Inc
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