Re: [2.6 patch] remove smbfs

Guenter Kukkukk
2008-01-30T21:21:53Z

Am Montag, 28. Januar 2008 schrieb Adrian Bunk:
> I remember that there were some small things missing in CIFS for
> completely replacing the unmaintained smbfs when we discussed removing
> smbfs back in 2005 due to smbfs being unmaintained.
>
> CIFS has improved since, smbfs is still unmaintained, and it's becoming
> time to finally remove smbfs.
>
> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
>

"... unmaintained smbfs ..." is not quite right, see
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/6/94
Before removing it now completely, drop
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
a note.
Afaik, Redhat still has customers which rely on smbfs.

In addition, cifs cannot completely replace smbfs atm.
Even todays sold NAS-boxes (often running anchient
samba-2.x.x) work only with smbfs on the client side.
Cheers, Günter