[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 00/15] cifs: implement multisession mounts (RFC)

[Jeremy Allison]

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.