> A while ago, we disabled it in Fedora kernels, and told people
> "Use CIFS instead". There were a whole range of Windows variants
> that it couldn't talk to. Maybe the situation has improved since,
> but at the time, it was bad enough that we had to switch smbfs back on.
>
> Dave
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We are close, but not quite ready to disable smbfs. At the annual cifs
plugfest and at connectathon (testing) cifs is doing well, and better on
most functional, performance and stability tests at this point in mainline
than smbfs but there are a few cases in which smbfs is better that I hav
The cifs ones look fine with me.
Steve French
Senior Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
phone: 512-838-2294
email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com
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> When I mount a share locally and begin copying files The system
> Begins to use a lot of memory,
There was a big update of cifs vfs in 2.6.6, which fixed a couple of issues
that could affect memory usage as you describe. I have not produced a
patch to go from 2.6.4 to current version of c
