From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: CIFS VFS Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 11:33:56 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021001113356.A14845@infradead.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Steven French Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from sfrench@us.ibm.com on Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:25:40PM -0500 List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 11:25:40PM -0500, Steven French wrote: > Although we are still working through a few bugs found during recent runs > of the fsx file system test suite against 2.5.38 and 2.5.39 (and working > on a few new features at the same time), suggestions for improving the > 2.5 version of the CIFS VFS would be welcome. So far most of the feedback > (e.g. on the recent addition of NTLMSSP security provider compatability and > some of the MS DFS work in progress) has been from the Samba community > (rather than Linux kernel side) since I have been doing much of my testing > against Samba servers and the project info is hosted there. The current > 2.5 source for the CIFS VFS is at Would you mind giving an short outline what the idea behind this filesystem is? It looks like it's an replacement for smbfs, but what are the advantages and why didn't you start with smbfs?