[Gllug] Can't delete files from Time Capsule mounted on Centos5

[gvim]

On 13/08/2010 16:21, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:

> The "Time Capsule" feature has a buffer.
> The buffer does not store an entire snapshot of the share. The buffer
> stores the difference between the current share and what the share was
> at some point in time in the past. As time goes by, the buffer gets
> larger as there are more and more differences between the old version
> and the current version.
> By deleting 160GB, you have probably now caused the difference between
> the old and the current version of be so large that it cannot fit in
> the buffer.
> If you delete the old snapshot, thus freeing up some buffer space, you
> should then be able to delete the rest of the files.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> James

Is this true even if it's being used only as a standard SMB/CIFS share mounted on a Linux machine? The iMacs aren't involved in the backups. Only the Linux server so Time Capsule features aren't being used.

gvim


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