[linux-cifs-client] downloading cifs vfs via cogito/git
Steve French
smfltc at us.ibm.com
Wed Jun 15 20:08:31 GMT 2005
Instructions on installing cogito/git are in step 1 of the writeup
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/26/11/index.html
He uses rsync to download the tree (in step 2 of his writeup) as
rsync -a --delete --verbose --stats --progress \
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/.git
which is fine (substitute sfrench/cifs-2.6.git for torvalds/linux-2.6.git
to get a tree with the more current fs/cifs directory) but I prefer cg-clone
for step 2
cg-clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6.git
The files in fs/cifs directory can be used to replace those on most any kernel
from 2.6.10 on. Running on slightly older kernels require minor changes to account
for kernel helper functions and changes to field names which I do by applying
a patch for this purpose which I keep in the cifs download directory on samba.org
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