{"id":275,"date":"2014-02-10T08:42:55","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T08:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rds.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/?page_id=275"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:33:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T11:33:16","slug":"symbolic-links-soft-and-hard","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\/symbolic-links-soft-and-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Symbolic Links (Soft and Hard)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Does Isilon support Unix Extensions for mounting CIFS shares on Linux?<\/h2>\n<p>Unfortunately not. Isilon switched from using Samba to a product called Likewise a year or two back. Likewise does not support Unix Extensions.<\/p>\n<h2>Does Isilon support symbolic links over CIFS?<\/h2>\n<p>Isilon does not support Windows symbolic links over CIFS.<\/p>\n<p>Isilon:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"gaplist\">\n<li>does not support the <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.samba.org\/index.php\/UNIX_Extensions\">POSIX Extensions<\/a> required for use of soft links on Linux systems via CIFS (e.g. <tt>ln -s<\/tt> over CIFS will fail);<\/li>\n<li>but hard links are supported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Does Isilon support symbolic links over NFS?<\/h2>\n<p>Yes, both hard and soft links are supported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does Isilon support Unix Extensions for mounting CIFS shares on Linux? Unfortunately not. Isilon switched from using Samba to a product called Likewise a year or two back. Likewise does not support Unix Extensions. Does Isilon support symbolic links over CIFS? Isilon does not support Windows symbolic links over CIFS. Isilon: does not support the POSIX Extensions required for use of soft links on Linux systems via CIFS (e.g. ln -s over CIFS will fail);.. <a href=\"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\/symbolic-links-soft-and-hard\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-275","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/275\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk\/rds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}