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So this device is XFS and I have it mounted via smb/cifs on an Ubuntu machine.

When I copy things over to it, as a backup, some of those things contain sym links, but XFS via CIFS apparently does not like sym links.

 

It does not appear that this device allows an NFS mount either - I'm not sure if that would help the situation.

 

Bottom line:

 

$ df -T .
Filesystem    Type   1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
//buffalo/share cifs   968628480  24715160 943913320   3% /smb/buffalo/share

$ cd /smb/buffalo/share

$ touch file

$ ln -s file file2

ln: creating symbolic link `file2': Operation not supported

 

My question is, how can I get this device to speak Linux (ext3/NFS).  If I can't which buffalo NAS devices will?

 

It's not that the device doesn't speak Linux, it's that Samba/CIFS doesn't really speak Linux. It's a method of allowing Linux to talk to Windows and vice versa. Allowing symlinks on a samba share would be quite a large security hole, because it would allow a remote user direct access to the internal filesystem.

   

Right, so Samba/CIFS is really the wrong protocol to be using Linux(myhost)->Linux(Linkstation).   I wonder if there are any plans to add NFS to this model?  If not, which model does support NFS natively so I can use it as a Linux backup device?

 

 

NFS support is included with the Terastation Pro II and Terastation III.

   Wow, 300+% premium for NFS.  These are all little linux boxes anyway right?  One little firmware update could make NFS available on any of these drives.  I need a $200 solution.  Thanks for replying.