[linux-cifs-client] Mounting OS/2 shares with cifs

[Suresh Jayaraman]

Hi Steve and all,

smbfs has been obsoleted and slated for removal as it has been replaced 
by cifs. But as I understand cifs is unusable with OS/2 shares. Some 
customers who had been using smbfs to mount OS/2 shares for a long time, 
think this is regression introduced by cifs over smbfs and their 
installations are going obsolete.

I don't have access to a OS/2 box and so I don't have much information 
on the current status of OS/2 support - all I have is little information 
from bug reports. Would like to know about the current status and user 
experiences with recent kernels as well.

Given that there is a considerable userbase, do we have a plan to 
support mounting OS/2 shares? I would like to hear what is the 
community's take on this?


Thanks,

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Suresh Jayaraman