From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Allison Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/15] cifs: implement multisession mounts (RFC) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:43:08 -0700 Message-ID: <20100331164308.GA18265@samba1> References: <1269978677-6817-1-git-send-email-jlayton@samba.org> <20100331121854.GA1456@shareable.org> Reply-To: Jeremy Allison Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Layton , linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Jamie Lokier Return-path: Received: from fn.samba.org ([216.83.154.106]:53902 "EHLO lists.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757760Ab0CaQnP (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:43:15 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100331121854.GA1456@shareable.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.