This is great news!  At DEY we had enhanced at multi-tenant CIFS server
code somewhat -- mostly bug fixing -- and had it in our product.  Great to
know that Nexenta has carried on with it as well.


On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Saso Kiselkov <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 12/19/13, 4:09 PM, Dan McDonald wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 07:58:14AM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> >> Generally speaking, if they have modified CDDL files in the course of
> >> adding support, then they are obliged to make their changes to those
> files
> >> available to their customers (which in the case of a free download can
> be
> >> *anyone*.)  That has to be under the terms of the CDDL as well, so those
> >> changes could be upstreamed. However, it is not necessarily the case
> that
> >> the changes are complete -- the way they did VAAI for example, they
> >> modified a CDDL file to leave a call site behind, but kept the actual
> >> implementation in closed source form.
> >>
> >> (For the record, I argued against that approach
> >
> > <SNIP!>
> >
> > So did others, and those others eventually won.
> >
> > 4.0.1 (per the nexentastor.org page previously referenced) has had VAAI
> moved
> > into the open-sourceable repo.  This repo will be updated no later than
> when
> > 4.0.1 GAs/FCSes/whatever-you-call-shipping.
> >
> > Oh, this applies to SMB2 as well.  :)
>
> I tip my hat to you guys, great work!
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Saso
>
>
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