Re: [BackupPC-users] External WD Worldbook Device
2009-04-07 16:43:45
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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