Problems with nfs

[Fedin Pavel]

On 24.04.2012 18:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> An NFS client is a filesystem driver. There are companies providing 
> such NFS clients, one of them Microsoft with SFU on pre-Vista and the 
> NFS client in Vista/W7 Ultimate/Enterprise. Corinna 

  BTW, IIRC in Cygwin we can mount SMB/CIFS shares using 'smbfs' in the 
fstab. Why can't we do the same for NFS?
  And second point. Of course we can use SFU client, but there'll be one 
problem. It won't expose symlinks etc correctly, because it's Windows 
native thing. I think would be nice to have a complete VFS layer in the 
Cygwin for such things.
  In fact this is why i use Cygwin at all - i want to cross-build Linux 
stuff and sometimes i need to run ARM board with root over NFS. I would 
love to use MinGW (much faster) but it won't allow me to have all the 
stuff (symlinkis, /dev nodes, etc) on my HDD. And i don't want to cope 
with virtual machine because it's not so comfortable. Additionally with 
MinGW i won't be able to cross-build Linux kernel because some freak 
thought that having filenames with only case difference (ip_conntrack.h 
and ip_CONNTRACK.h) is a funny idea...

-- 
  Kind regards
  Pavel Fedin
  Expert engineer, Samsung Moscow research center


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