From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Steve French" Subject: Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction points Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:05:04 -0600 Message-ID: <524f69650801110805y56cdbe4nf7587e396b70f32c@mail.gmail.com> References: <1199988975.7483.3.camel@gn2.draper.com> <524f69650801101228o3639363cp4c9710d747b71ead@mail.gmail.com> <20080111090749.GA14910@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel , linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org To: "Christoph Hellwig" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080111090749.GA14910@infradead.org> Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-cifs-client-bounces+glfc-linux-cifs-client=gmane.org@lists.samba.org Errors-To: linux-cifs-client-bounces+glfc-linux-cifs-client=gmane.org@lists.samba.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org Igor's overview of the patch series is: http://marc.info/?l=linux-cifs-client&r=1&b=200712&w=2 Although most of the CIFS DFS support is merged, there are three remaining patches to finish review before merge. One, for completing CIFSGetDFSReferral, is probably less interesting to fsdevel: http://marc.info/?l=linux-cifs-client&m=119798736327234&w=2 but the other two are more important: http://marc.info/?l=linux-cifs-client&m=119798738227280&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-cifs-client&m=119798739027293&w=2 Igor has indicated that he will look at a subsequent patch to more efficiently store mountdata on shrinkable mounts by using a pointer to the parent's mountdata. On Jan 11, 2008 3:07 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:28:40PM -0600, Steve French wrote: > > > to CIFS not supporting DFS junction points. Any projected date for that > > > to be supported? > > > > I anticipate that it will make Linux kernel 2.6.25 (marked > > experimental) and eventually in a cifs version 1.53 backported for > > older kernels. > > If you want to get it into 2.6.25 get it out for review on -fsdevel > ASAP. 2.6.24 is almost done and it needs to be in acceptable state > before 2.6.25 opens. > > -- Thanks, Steve