On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:00 PM, <starlight@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > At 05:50 PM 9/16/2010 -0500, Steve French wrote: >>On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:39 PM, <starlight@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Trying out a CIFS mount of a W2K8 x64 file system from CentOS >>> 5.5 and running into problems, and trying to figure out how to >>> proceed. > ... >> >>This is quite old kernel, but perhaps it was updated to include more >>recent fixes - can you view the version information on the file, ie >>the cifs.ko module (you can do this by running modinfo on >>cifs.ko) >> > > Thank you for the follow-up. Per my last message this was my > being a clueless in regards to the lack of hard/soft link > support in the old version. 'modinfo' pegs it as 1.60RH. > > Hopefully RHEL6 will include CIFS file links as it might work > better to compile on Linux from a Windows share rather than > vice-versa. 'makedepend' runs painfully slow from Windows over > a Samba share unless IPoIB is used for transport. > > Perhaps I'll try it under Fedora, though in general I find > wrestling with the constant change of the moving-target distro > too much. > > It is quite encouraging to see CIFS work in general. There is a lot of work going on :) We (Jeff, Suresh, Shirish, Pavel and I and others) are doing over 200 changesets a year fixing/improving the cifs kernel module (and hopefully will have a stable smb2 protocol kernel module for you next year). -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
