Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> Tino Schwarze wrote at about 15:56:22 +0200 on Tuesday, April 7, 2009:
>  > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 09:44:48AM -0400, David Williams wrote:
>  > > The drive is supposed to be a NAS drive, in that it is connected 
> directly to
>  > > my router.  Hoping that someone else has this kind of drive and has come 
> up
>  > > with a solution to this problem.  So far I have not been able to see how 
> I
>  > > can reformat it :(  There is a web interface for the drive but even with
>  > > that there doesn't appear to be a way to re-format the thing.  Perhaps 
> this
>  > > is not something that can be done, or that WD want people doing, which is
>  > > understandable.
>  > > 
>  > > I mount the drive as follows:
>  > > 
>  > > //192.168.15.6/public /backups cifs rw,
>  > > username=user,password=passwd,uid=backuppc,gid=backuppc 0 0
>  > 
>  > Can you mount it via NFS? But I suppose, the cifs implementation of the
>  > drive (some kind of Windows CE?) does not support hardlinks?
> cifs is SAMBA and doesn't support hardlinks (at least in my experience).

cifs is "supposed" to be different from smbfs in offering unix 
extensions that should include hardlinks.  Here's a 5-year old article 
about it: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1656. I don't know if it actually 
works yet or if enabling the unix extensions on a worldbook is possible 
or easier than nfs, though.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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