On 05/15/2012 06:39 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2012 09:20:14 +0200 > VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN <eric2.valette@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 05/14/2012 07:15 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: >>> >>> BTW: I've seen prototype SMB2 support in git tress pushed in october. >>> Any plan to submit something upstream? >>> >>> Thanks for your support, >>> >>> >>> Yes, we're working on it. I think we've come to some consensus on a >>> basic design and I believe Pavel is now working to forward-port the >>> previous patches to that design. >>> >> OK. Will wait then. Any chance it might helps with the netapp? >> >>> In Netapps defense Ontap 8.1 is an early release which are known to be buggy. >> Well its been released around february if google can be trusted and what >> this says is that netapp don't care about Linux support at all and do >> not even perform basic test with linux client. I'm rather sure we asked >> about linux compatibility before moving from 7.xx to 8.01. >> >> -- eric >> > > For the record... > > The story I've heard in the past (albeit second or third hand) is that > Netapp is not interested in interop with non-windows clients. It's Yeah, I have heard similar stories too and from what I have heard from the NetApp customers, NetApp seems to strongly suggest to use _only_ NFS with the Linux clients. Thanks Suresh -- 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
