[Samba] Transfer speed

[Jeff Layton]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:36:56 +0200
Volker Lendecke <Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 08:55:14AM -0500, Chris Weiss wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Volker Lendecke
> > <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 08:26:48AM -0500, Chris Weiss wrote:
> > >> that's dramatic!  what needs done (from a user POV) to get this
> > >> backported into Stable distro kernels?  suggestions?
> > >
> > > Wait until the next major releases pick it up.
> > 
> > that's a really crappy option.  in certain cases that
> > could be 4 years from now.
> 
> Well, if you are an important enough RH customer you might
> be able to apply pressure. But that's a LOT of money
> probably. Same for SuSE. Debian will likely be very
> resistant against that kind of bribery^Wincentive.
> 

The patches involved here are pretty invasive. Backporting them is not
for the faint-of-heart.

Async write support went into RHEL 6.2. So far, no one has piped up to
request async read support in RHEL6 yet, but we may backport it there
at some point if someone requests it.

-- 
Jeff Layton <jlayton at samba.org>