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 > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: > https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/22003744-9012f59c > Modify Your Subscription: > https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
