Re: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:15:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > 
 > The patch titled
 > 
 >      deprecate smbfs in favour of cifs
 > 
 > has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
 > 
 >      deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch
 > 
 > See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
 > out what to do about this
 > 
 > 
 > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
 > 
 > smbfs is a bit buggy and has no maintainer.  Change it to shout at the user on
 > the first five mount attempts - tell them to switch to CIFS.
 > 
 > Come November we'll mark it BROKEN and see what happens.


For Fedora Core 5, I disabled SMBFS for pretty much the same reasons.
Users migrating to CIFS haven't really had any problems so far, except for
this case: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186914
(Which has also come up a few times on Fedora mailing lists since).

I mailed Steve about this, and he did reply, but I can't seem to find it
right now

		Dave

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