On 04/06/2024 23:52, John Hixson wrote:
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 03:27:54PM +0200, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
On 16/06/2022 15:56, Rick Macklem wrote:
Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote:
On 24/01/2022 16:13, Rick Macklem wrote:
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So, I think Mark and Yuri are correct and looking at up to date
Illumos sources is the next step.
(As I mentioned, porting the Apple sources is beyond what I am
willing to attempt.)
rick
Hello Rick,
I would like to ask you I there is some progress with porting newer
SMBFS / CIFS version to FreeBSD? Did you find Illumos sources as a
possibility where to start porting?
Yes. I have the stuff off Illumos-gate, which I think is pretty up-to-date
and I agree that it should be easier than the Apple stuff to port into
FreeBSD. I don't think it is "straightforward" as someone involved
with Illumos said, due to the big differences in VFS/locking, but...
Having said the above, I have not done much yet. I've been cleaning up
NFS stuff, although I am nearly done with that now.
I do plan on starting to work on it soon, but have no idea if/when I
will have something that might be useful for others.
I'm glad to hear that.
We have more and more problems with current state of mount_smbfs. I
would be really glad if "somebody" can do the heroic work of
implementing SMBv2 in FreeBSD.
Maybe it's time to start some fundraising for sponsoring this work?
Well, funding isn't an issue for me (I'm just a retired guy who does this
stuff as a hobby). However, if there is someone else who is capable of
doing it if they are funded, I have no problem with that.
I could either help them, or simply stick with working on NFS and leave
SMBv23 to them.
Sorry, but I cannot report real progress on this as yet, rick
No need to sorry. I really appreciate your endless work on NFS and that you
still have kind of interest to try porting SMBv2/3.
Unfortunately I don't know anybody else trying to do this tremendous work.
I am working on a from scratch implementation of smbfs. I do not have
any kind of time estimate since it is in my spare time. I chose this
route after spending considerable time looking at Apple and Solaris
implementations and wanting something without all of the legacy 1.0
crap. I do have a very minimal working FUSE version at this point, but
there is much to do, and even more to abide by the various
specifications.
I just thought I'd share in case anyone is interested.
Thank you for the message. I'm glad someone has the courage to take the
plunge. Smbfs is still very important to me. In a heterogeneous
environment it is still the most common way to share data between systems.
Are you planning the final version as a kernel module, or will the final
version be via FUSE? I have had bad experiences with FUSE in the past
with stability and performance.
Best regards
Miroslav Lachman
