Jeff Layton wrote: > To be honest, I have doubts anyway about whether we should take this > patch into what seems to be considered a legacy codebase these days. > It's rather difficult to bolt this functionality onto the existing CIFS > codebase. It's probably more suited to putting into the newer SMB2 > codebase. That said, it'll probably be just as difficult to do this > there since most of that code was copied from CIFS. Legacy? Maybe only in environments where everyone is running only Windows servers, all of them less than 2 years old :-) (I've yet to see such an environment, btw). The stable version of Samba (3.x) supports only SMB1. Samba 4, which does support SMB2, is "not yet in a state where it can replace existing production deployments"; the Ubuntu package description says "experimental, should not be used in production". In fact when I wanted to deploy an SMB2 service from Linux recently (to get better file link semantics on a Windows client), I gave up on it, it was too disruptive to replace Samba 3 with Samba 4. This per-user patchset you've produced sounds quite useful, thank you. Please don't think you are targetting only a few horribly outdated environments with it :-) -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
