From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] cifs: implement multisession mounts (RFC) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:18:54 +0100 Message-ID: <20100331121854.GA1456@shareable.org> References: <1269978677-6817-1-git-send-email-jlayton@samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Layton Return-path: Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:42557 "EHLO mail2.shareable.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756302Ab0CaMSz (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:18:55 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1269978677-6817-1-git-send-email-jlayton@samba.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 Please don't think you are targetting only a few horribly outdated environments with it :-) -- Jamie