RE: Backporting the CIFS module

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>> 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?
>
>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.
>

OK, thanks for the info. We have to do some OS upgrades now :)
And big thanks for the work on the module, the multiuser+kerberos mounts
work great on CentOS 6.4
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