With the good recent progress on an in-kernel Linux QUIC driver (see e.g. https://github.com/lxin/quic.git), it is now possible to test use of QUIC for SMB3.1.1 mounts (various non-Linux fileservers support QUIC, including Windows), instead of TCP (or RDMA/smbdirect). Given the performance advantages (and obvious use cases for encrypted access to remote files) of QUIC, the timing is good now to update others on what we have found out so far in our experiments using the in-kernel QUIC driver for accessing remote files over SMB3.1.1 mounts and how it may help other fs (or network block devices) that could benefit from using QUIC instead of TCP. -- Thanks, Steve
