On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:10, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> I was wondering if it would be possible for the kernel team to have a
> look at CIFS for 2.4.x? CIFS will probably be replacing smbfs in 2.6,
> and has been merged into 2.5.x already.
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> CIFS has the following advantages over smbfs:
> 1)>2GB file support (against Windows 2000 server and samba at least,
> possibly others)
> 2)support for CIFS extensions (with a server such as samba that supports
> them) allowing chmod, ln etc to work between samba servers and CIFS
> clients. This for example would allow a single samba server in an
> otherwise windows-server-only network to handle home directories for
> desktops running linux (if both linux client and samba server are
> running winbind) in said windows network. This is not currently possible
> (AFAIK) with smbfs, and will not be possible with NFS (uid's between
> winbind boxes will not match). Requires only that a recent samba be
> configured for "unix extensions = yes".
> 3)Support for many advanced features of SMB/CIFS networking, including
> DFS trees
> 4)Many features are planned, such as ACL support (so getfactl, setfacl
> would work over samba/CIFS).
>
> It seems like it should not really require significant patching, and
> would mean that people could start working on user-space tools
> (pam_mount is a good candidate) to make use of this.
>
> I haven't had time to look into it in more detail ("free" time this week
> has been spent on samba-2.2.7a and samba3 getting AV stuff working). I
> will do a kernel build if necessary to test it if the kernel maintainers
> have some objections.
>
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html
>
> Regards,
> Buchan
What of Microsoft's inclusion in the spec that specifically excludes
inclusion of CIFS in GPLed software?
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