Hi Saket Sinha,
Thanks for your interest...
On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 17:15:32 +0530, Saket Sinha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking forward to paticipate in GSOC 2015 with Samba community for
> Improving SMB3 protocol improvements.
>
> This is to discuss the idea further in order to build my understanding of
> the project.
>
> The TODOs listed here show the following -
>
> 1. Support for using multiple network interfaces at once under the same
> mount (SMB3 multichannel)
> 2. Improved directory and metadata caching ("directory oplocks")
> 3. Improved failover in clustering environments ("persistent file
> handles" and more generally SMB3 "continuous availability" support)
> 4. File copy offload (there are multiple server side copy mechanisms
> possible with SMB3, T10 copy offload, SMB2/SMB3 "copy chunk" as well as an
> older cifs mechanism "SMB Copy" that could be implemented, compared and
> optimized).
> 5. HA availability improvements on server and/or client (the SMB3
> "Witness protocol")
>
> I would like to be guided which one I should pick up to get started.
These tasks all relate to the Linux kernel CIFS/SMB client (cifs.ko), so
would be best answered on the cifs.ko mailing list (cc'ed). I'd suggest
only pursuing these tasks if you have a reasonably solid background in C
programming.
Cheers, David
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