From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@samba.org>,
linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] cifs: implement multisession mounts (RFC)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:43:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100331164308.GA18265@samba1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100331121854.GA1456@shareable.org>
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:18:54PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 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.
FYI. There's experimental SMB2 support
in Samba 3.5.x, which we're fixing up as bugs get
reported. Look for it to become "stable" sometime
later in the 3.x code stream.
Jeremy.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-31 16:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-30 19:51 [PATCH 00/15] cifs: implement multisession mounts (RFC) Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 01/15] cifs: remove unused list_head from cifs_sb_info Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 02/15] cifs: add function to get a tcon from cifs_sb Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 03/15] cifs: track local_nls in volume info Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 04/15] cifs: move SMB session creation code into separate function Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 05/15] cifs: move tcon find/create " Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 06/15] cifs: add tcon field to cifsFileInfo struct Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 07/15] cifs: make various routines use the cifsFileInfo->tcon pointer Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 08/15] cifs: have find_readable/writable_file filter by fsuid Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 09/15] cifs: fix cifs_show_options to show "username=" or "multises" Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 10/15] cifs: move secType to the SMB session Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 11/15] cifs: have cifs_new_fileinfo take a tcon arg Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 12/15] cifs: build sessions and tcons on the fly Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 13/15] cifs: on multises mount, set ownership to current_fsuid/current_fsgid Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 14/15] cifs: add "multises" mount option Jeff Layton
2010-03-30 19:51 ` [PATCH 15/15] cifs: temporary hack -- set secType to Kerberos Jeff Layton
2010-03-31 12:18 ` [PATCH 00/15] cifs: implement multisession mounts (RFC) Jamie Lokier
2010-03-31 13:42 ` Jeff Layton
2010-03-31 16:43 ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
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