Re: Linux 3.2.17 and netapp 8.1

[Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman-IBi9RG/b67k@public.gmane.org>]

On 05/15/2012 06:39 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2012 09:20:14 +0200
> VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN <eric2.valette-C0LM0jrOve7QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 05/14/2012 07:15 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
>>>
>>> BTW: I've seen prototype SMB2 support in git tress pushed in october.
>>> Any plan to submit something upstream?
>>>
>>> Thanks for your support,
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, we're working on it. I think we've come to some consensus on a
>>> basic design and I believe Pavel is now working to forward-port the
>>> previous patches to that design.
>>>
>> OK. Will wait then. Any chance it might helps with the netapp?
>>
>>> In Netapps defense Ontap 8.1 is an early release which are known to be buggy.
>> Well its been released around february if google can be trusted and what 
>> this says is that netapp don't care about Linux support at all and do 
>> not even perform basic test with linux client. I'm rather sure we asked 
>> about linux compatibility before moving from 7.xx to 8.01.
>>
>> -- eric
>>
> 
> For the record...
> 
> The story I've heard in the past (albeit second or third hand) is that
> Netapp is not interested in interop with non-windows clients. It's

Yeah, I have heard similar stories too and from what I have heard from
the NetApp customers, NetApp seems to strongly suggest to use _only_ NFS
with the Linux clients.


Thanks
Suresh