The smbfs(5) filesystem supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol, and I propose removing it for FreeBSD 14. I know the CHERI folks have been using it but they plan to migrate away from it. It was broken for months before they fixed it, so I suspect nobody is using it on contemporary releases.
I have review D32707 (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32707) open to add this deprecation notice to the man page: The smbfs filesystem driver supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol. smbfs and userspace counterparts smbutil(1) and mount_smbfs(8) are not present in FreeBSD 14 and above. Users are advised to evaluate the sysutils/fusefs-smbnetfs port instead. A similar notice would be added to the smbutil and mount_smbfs man pages, and manu@ suggested having the userland utilities emit a warning when they are used. I am interested in comments, objections, or reports that anyone is in fact using smbfs.
