[linux-cifs-client] Re: Re: [PATCH] CIFS: Add nodfs mount option

[Michael]

Well, you may be right from a technical point of view, but from a users
point of view it is very much a regression. Before kernel 2.6.25, I could
use my Samba server perfectly. Now it does no longer work (and there is no
workaround).

So, either the Samba guys correct the DFS coding in their 3.0.24 or we need
the nodfs patch in the kernel.

At the moment I resort to compiling the kernels myself (although I am no
kernel hacker :-( ), but that shouldn't be a long term perspective, I hope.

Timothee Besset wrote:

> If anything, I'm pretty sure you won't see this before 2.6.28. This does
> not classify as a bug/regression fix, it's new functionality (2.6.28
> merge windows is open however)
> 
> TTimo
> 
> Michael wrote:
>> This patch is a good one. It helped me with the same problem on my Samba
>> 3.0.24 server and 2.6.27 client.
>>
>> I am just wondering, why it doesn't appear in the newly released kernels.
>> It is neither in 2.6.27.2 nor in 2.6.27.3. It is not even scheduled for
>> 2.6.27.4 ???
>>
>>
>> Steve French wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> Merged - after cleaning up some long (>80) lines and adding an
>>> fs/cifs/README entry
>>>
>>>     
>>
>>
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