[linux-cifs-client] Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module

[simo]

On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 09:46 -0500, Gerald Carter wrote:
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> Simo,
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> > I guess DFS referrals can work cross protocol, so if you are redirected
> > from a longhorn server to a windoes 2000 or a samba server you want to
> > be able to follow the DFS referral and not return an error.
> > To do that you need to have either 1 module that support both protocols
> > or a way from one module to call the other. Just separating the 2
> > without any glue will not work (or you will have to add some userspace
> > upcall hack to make it work).
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> Long term I agree that CIFS and SMB2 should be in the same .ko
> But NTLM 0.12 still works for Vista and DFS referrals.
> Breaking out SMB2 initially means that it will not clutter
> the working cifs.ko code.  Remember that an SMB2 client fs is
> mostly research at this point, and not engineering.

Well, development can happen in any way Steve or any other like to do
it, but it seemed to me that the proposal was to split them long term.

I think this would be bad wrt supporting DFS referrals.

That said, it I'll shut up as kindly requested from someone that seem to
know better than Samba/CIFS developers.

Simo.

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Simo Sorce
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