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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.
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
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