The issues with CIFS is not just complexity; it's the total amount of incompatible change in the kernel that we had to make in order to make the CIFS protocol a first class citizen in Solaris. This includes changes in the VFS layer which would break all S10 file systems. So in a very real sense CIFS simply cannot be backported to S10.
-- Fred On May 16, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Thu, 15 May 2008, Robin Guo wrote: > >> The most feature and bugfix so far towards Navada 87 (or 88? ) will >> backport into s10u6. It's about the same (I mean from outside >> viewer, not >> inside) with openSolaris 05/08, but certainly, some other features as >> CIFS has no plan to backport to s10u6 yet, so ZFS will has fully >> ready >> but no effect on these kind of area. That depend on how they co- >> operate. > > Yah, I've heard that the CIFS stuff was way too many changes to > backport, > guess that is going to have to wait until Solaris 11. > > So, from a feature perspective it looks like S10U6 is going to be in > pretty > good shape ZFS-wise. If only someone could speak to (perhaps under the > cloak of anonymity ;) ) the timing side :). Given U5 barely came > out, I > wouldn't expect U6 anytime soon :(. > > Thanks... > > > -- > Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/ > ~henson/ > Operating Systems and Network Analyst | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768 > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss -- Fred Zlotnick Senior Director, Solaris NAS Sun Microsystems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] x81142/+1 650 352 9298 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
