Author: sfrench Date: 2007-04-27 13:24:18 +0000 (Fri, 27 Apr 2007) New Revision: 1106
WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=1106 Log: Update cifs client home page to indicate new version numbers Modified: trunk/Linux_CIFS_client.html Changeset: Modified: trunk/Linux_CIFS_client.html =================================================================== --- trunk/Linux_CIFS_client.html 2007-04-25 12:19:28 UTC (rev 1105) +++ trunk/Linux_CIFS_client.html 2007-04-27 13:24:18 UTC (rev 1106) @@ -1,90 +1,114 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> -<!-- saved from url=(0049)http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html --> -<HTML><HEAD> -<TITLE>Linux CIFS Client</TITLE> -<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> -<META content="IBM WebSphere Studio Homepage Builder V6.0.2 for Windows" name="GENERATOR"> -<META http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> -</HEAD> -<BODY onload="document.mirrorForm.mirrorLocation.selectedIndex=0"><BR> -<BR> - -<P>LATEST UPDATES - cifs vfs version 1.45 is accepted into mainline kernel (2.6.18) and includes full posix byte range locking support to current Samba servers, and also has much improved posix locking support to other servers, even those which do not support the CIFS POSIX protocol extensions. cifs 1.45 also includes much improved support for legacy servers including OS/2 and Windows 9x. A backported version of cifs 1.45 which builds on old kernel versions is also available. cifs vfs 1.46 is current in the cifs-2.6.git tree.</P> -<TABLE cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0> - <CAPTION> - </CAPTION> - <TBODY> - <TR> - <TD bgColor=#eeeeee colSpan=2><!-- Title Bar --> - <CENTER> - <H1>CIFS VFS - </H1> - </CENTER> - <CENTER> - <H1>Advanced Common Internet File System for - Linux </H1> - </CENTER> - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD vAlign=top width="20%" bgColor=#eeeeee><!-- Menu (Left Column) --><!-- Menu --> - <CENTER><IMG alt="http://us1.samba.org/samba/images/penguin.gif"; src="samba/images/penguin.gif"></CENTER> - <A - href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Questions to developers</A> - <UL> - <LI><A href="https://bugzilla.samba.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=CifsVFS&content=";>Search for open bugs in bugzilla </A> - <LI><A href="cifs/cifs_download.html">Download</A> - <LI><A href="cifs/cifs_testing.html">CIFS Testing</A> - <LI>Suggested test plan (under construction) - <LI><A href="http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;h=7b4ac096cd114d34e623bafaed91b85ba4a95e62";>Installation</A> - <LI><A href="http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;h=8cc881694e2911d0a2eff3ca7eb5dd5efc0503d3";>Todo list</A> - <LI><A - href="http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS/CIFS-TR-1p00_FINAL.pdf";>SNIA - CIFS Specification</A> - <LI><A href="http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;h=72fdc10dfdd7c94327ad87efff1dec2adbb67cbd";>Authors/Thanks</A><A - href="http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/presentations/samba/ut_cifs.pdf";>r</A> - </UL> - </TD> - <TD vAlign=top bgColor=#ffffff><!-- Main Contents --> - <P>The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers - and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS Specification version - 1.0 or later. Popular servers such as Samba, Windows - 2000, Windows XP and many others support CIFS by default. The - CIFS VFS provides some support for older servers based on the more - primitive SMB (Server Message Block) protocol (you also can use the Linux filesystem - smbfs as an alternative for accessing these). CIFS VFS is designed to take - advantage of advanced network filesystem features such as locking, Unicode (advanced - internationalization), hardlinks, dfs (heirarchical, replicated name space), - distributed caching and uses native TCP names (rather than RFC1001, Netbios - names). Unlike some other network filesystems all key network function - including authentication is provided in kernel (and changes to mount and/or - a mount helper file are not required in order to enable the CIFS VFS). - With the addition of upcoming improvements to the mount helper (mount.cifs) - the CIFS VFS will be able to take advantage of the new CIFS URL specification - though. The Todo list includes some of the other features being - planned for future releases. The CIFS VFS has been tested with - Linux 2.4.14 and later as well as regular testing on Linux 2.6 (and has - been in the kernel source starting with Linux kernel 2.5.42. The CIFS client - is no longer considered "expiremental" in Linux versions after - 2.6.7 (cifs version 1.19) or later. Testing has been done on various hardware - architectures including x86 and even big endian zSeries hardware. - The cifs and smbfs filesystems can coexist on the same system and do not - conflict. <BR> - - <P>The current version of the CIFS VFS has been backported to compile on 2.4 kernels, not just older 2.6. kernel versions). To download replacement files for the - fs/cifs directory which includes a relatively recent version of the cifs - vfs click <A href="http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/cifs-1.45.tar.gz";>1.45 for 2.6 kernels</A> (released August 2nd, 2006).<P>CIFS VFS is licensed under the <A - href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html";>GNU General Public License</A> - version 2 or later. </P> - </TD> - </TR> - <TR> - <TD vAlign=top></TD> - <TD vAlign=top>Thanks to SNIA, IBM and the Samba Team<BR> - <IMG src="samba/images/samba_banner.gif" alt="http://us1.samba.org/samba/images/samba_banner.gif";> <BR> - for their assistance - and support.</TD> - </TR> - </TBODY> -</TABLE> -</BODY> -</HTML> +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> + <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> + <TITLE>Linux CIFS Client</TITLE> + <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 2.0 (Linux)"> + <META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20070427;8481900"> + <META NAME="CHANGEDBY" CONTENT="Steve French"> + <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20070427;9075900"> + <!-- saved from url=(0049)http://www.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html --> + <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Style-Type" CONTENT="text/css"> +</HEAD> +<BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR" ONLOAD="document.mirrorForm.mirrorLocation.selectedIndex=0"> +<P><BR><BR> +</P> +<P>LATEST UPDATES – cifs user's guide documentation is now +available on samba.org. cifs vfs version 1.48 is accepted into +mainline kernel (2.6.21) which includes spectacularly better write +performance for some common small sequential write workloads. cifs +1.49 includes support for ipv6 and also much better mkdir performance +to Samba 3.0.25 (which leverages the newest CIFS POSIX protocol +extensions). A backported version of cifs 1.48 which builds on old +kernel versions is also available. cifs vfs 1.49 is current in the +cifs-2.6.git tree.</P> +<TABLE WIDTH=100% BORDER=0 CELLPADDING=2 CELLSPACING=2> + <TR> + <TD COLSPAN=2 BGCOLOR="#eeeeee"> + <H1 ALIGN=CENTER><!-- Title Bar -->CIFS VFS - </H1> + <H1 ALIGN=CENTER>Advanced Common Internet File System for Linux <!-- Menu (Left Column) --><!-- Menu --></H1> + </TD> + </TR> + <TR VALIGN=TOP> + <TD WIDTH=20% BGCOLOR="#eeeeee"> + <P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><IMG SRC="samba/images/penguin.gif" NAME="graphics1" ALT="http://us1.samba.org/samba/images/penguin.gif"; ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=103 HEIGHT=121 BORDER=0></P> + <P><A HREF="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Questions to developers</A> + </P> + <UL> + <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/linux-cifs-client-guide.pdf";>Documentation + (CIFS Users Guide)</A></P> + <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="https://bugzilla.samba.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific∨der=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__∏uct=CifsVFS&content=";>Search + for open bugs in bugzilla </A> + </P> + <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="cifs/cifs_download.html">Download</A> + </P> + <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="cifs/cifs_testing.html">CIFS + Testing</A> + </P> + <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in">Suggested test plan (under + construction) + </P> + <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-backport-old-kernels.git;a=blob;f=fs/cifs/README;hb=HEAD";>Installation</A> + </P> + <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-backport-old-kernels.git;a=blob;f=fs/cifs/TODO;hb=HEAD";>Todo + list</A> + </P> + <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/CIFS/CIFS-TR-1p00_FINAL.pdf";>SNIA + CIFS Specification</A> + </P> + <LI><P><A HREF="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-backport-old-kernels.git;a=blob;f=fs/cifs/AUTHORS";>Authors/Thanks</A><A HREF="http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/presentations/samba/ut_cifs.pdf";>r<!-- Main Contents --></A> + </P> + </UL> + </TD> + <TD BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <P>The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access + to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS + Specification version 1.0 or later. Popular + servers such as Samba, Windows 2000, Windows XP and many others + support CIFS by default. The CIFS VFS provides + some support for older servers based on the more primitive SMB + (Server Message Block) protocol (you also can use the Linux file + system smbfs as an alternative for accessing these). + CIFS VFS is designed to take advantage of advanced network file + system features such as locking, Unicode (advanced + internationalization), hardlinks, dfs (hierarchical, replicated + name space), distributed caching and uses native TCP names (rather + than RFC1001, Netbios names). Unlike some other network file + systems all key network function including authentication is + provided in kernel (and changes to mount and/or a mount helper + file are not required in order to enable the CIFS VFS). With the + addition of upcoming improvements to the mount helper (mount.cifs) + the CIFS VFS will be able to take advantage of the new CIFS URL + specification though. The TODO list includes some of + the other features being planned for future releases. + The CIFS VFS has been tested with Linux 2.4.14 and later as well + as regular testing on Linux 2.6 (and has been in the kernel source + starting with Linux kernel 2.5.42. The CIFS client is no longer + considered "expiremental" in Linux versions after 2.6.7 + (cifs version 1.19) or later. Testing has been done on various + hardware architectures including x86 and even big endian zSeries + hardware. The cifs and smbfs file systems can coexist + on the same system and do not conflict. <BR> + </P> + <P>The current version of the CIFS VFS has been backported to + compile on 2.4 kernels, not just older 2.6. kernel versions). To + download replacement files for the fs/cifs directory which + includes a relatively recent version of the cifs vfs which has + been backported to build on various earlier kernels click <A HREF="http://pserver.samba.org/samba/ftp/cifs-cvs/cifs-1.48a.tar.gz";>cifs + 1.48a for 2.6 kernels</A> (released April 4th, 2007).</P> + <P>CIFS VFS is licensed under the <A HREF="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html";>GNU + General Public License</A> version 2 or later. </P> + </TD> + </TR> + <TR VALIGN=TOP> + <TD></TD> + <TD> + <P>Thanks to SNIA, IBM and the Samba Team<BR> <IMG SRC="samba/images/samba_banner.gif" NAME="graphics2" ALT="http://us1.samba.org/samba/images/samba_banner.gif"; ALIGN=BOTTOM WIDTH=470 HEIGHT=60 BORDER=0> + <BR>for their assistance and support.</P> + </TD> + </TR> +</TABLE> +<P><BR><BR> +</P> +</BODY> +</HTML> \ No newline at end of file
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