On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 7:51 AM, Jeff Layton <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:04:35 -0500 > Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Does RHEL 5 or RHEL 6, or the current versions of cifs-utils available >> for either, actually support SMB2? I don't see a "mount.smb2" binary >> in the packages, though I see it mentioned in the docs, and I'd like >> to really hammer the SMB2 server for performance comparisons. But it's >> meaningless if if it's not actually mounting as SMB2. > > smb2fs is still under development upstream and neither RHEL5 or 6 > include client-side support in the kernel. I'm not clear on whether > server-side support is being shipped in either though (the folks that > maintain that piece would need to comment).
Oh, brother. I've got a colleague who really wants SMB2 support under RHEL, for completely understandable reasons. Large Java development environments, large sets of lots of little scattered files. I was confused by the various references to it in cifs-utils upstream discussions and thought it would be available. I should have asked here, thank you very much for such a quick and clear answer! Since I'm dealing with NetApps for back end storage, I only really need client support. Server side support would be good: it would wildly improve Subversion checkouts into CIFS shares for large working copies, I expect. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
