Re: CIFS backporting for kernel 2.6, SMB2/3 dialect support

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Hi Chris,

Chris Davies <chris.davies@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Hi folks, I'm hoping to achieve SMB2.0+ dialect support for CentOS 6 clients (currently with CIFS 1.68).  Has anyone done a backport of newer CIFS versions for use in production? Was it trivial?

According to wikipedia CenOS 6 is based on kernel 2.6.32. This is
*old*. Adding SMBv2 support required large refactoring efforts and
kernel APIs are often changing so I expect backporting to be very hard
unfortunately.

Cheers,

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