On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 14:13:46 +0000 (UTC) Dame Dimitrov <ddimitro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > We're planning to replace some NFS mounts with CIFS mounts, with the help > multiuser option of CIFS. > But unfortunately we have some CentOS 5 machines, and the cifs.ko kernel > module (v. 1.60) does not support the multiuser option, > Can anyone give a hint how can I backport for example the cifs module from > CentOS6 (v. 1.68) to CentOS5, and if it's at all doable? > > Thanks and cheers, > Dame. > Heh... *anything* is doable. The problem of course is that it's absolutely non-trivial. The VFS layer infrastructure is quite different between RHEL5 and RHEL6. I'm the person who wrote most of that code and I refrained from trying to backport any of it to RHEL5 mostly due to the huge amount of changes that it would have involved. -- Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
