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* cifs _seems_ to be unneccessarily increasing memory footprint.
@ 2021-01-29  1:14 L Walsh
  2021-01-29  2:04 ` ronnie sahlberg
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: L Walsh @ 2021-01-29  1:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-cifs

Looking in my loaded modules, 'cifs' is loading
libdes, fscache and libarc4.

My main question is why does a cifs filesystem that is
mounted from the network need libdes and libarc
if it is not using any encrypted connections on the wire?
(FWIW wire a a dedicated line between a Win WS, and a
linux file server, but encryption has never been needed.

So what is causing these modules to be loaded in now?



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* Re: cifs _seems_ to be unneccessarily increasing memory footprint.
  2021-01-29  1:14 cifs _seems_ to be unneccessarily increasing memory footprint L Walsh
@ 2021-01-29  2:04 ` ronnie sahlberg
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: ronnie sahlberg @ 2021-01-29  2:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: L Walsh; +Cc: linux-cifs

Authentication requires crypto, as does signing.

These are module dependencies so they are loaded when the cifs module is loaded.
They are not loaded on demand.

Or did I misunderstand?

regards
ronnie sahlberg

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:28 AM L Walsh <cifs@tlinx.org> wrote:
>
> Looking in my loaded modules, 'cifs' is loading
> libdes, fscache and libarc4.
>
> My main question is why does a cifs filesystem that is
> mounted from the network need libdes and libarc
> if it is not using any encrypted connections on the wire?
> (FWIW wire a a dedicated line between a Win WS, and a
> linux file server, but encryption has never been needed.
>
> So what is causing these modules to be loaded in now?
>
>

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