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

Timothee Besset ttimo at idsoftware.com
Fri Oct 24 17:32:39 GMT 2008


I am running on a patched 2.6.27 kernel myself for the same reasons. I
don't think any distro (Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu) has a stable release that
is running anything newer than 2.6.24 atm, and they might pickup this
patch and backport it to their own distro-flavored kernels if they want to.

We'd all like things to go faster and run better, but from what I know
about patches going into kernel releases, I doubt that one will make it
into a 2.6.27.x - after all we're looking at several months of not
working (since 2.6.25 I believe), and people would still need to add the
nodfs option to their mounts to fix things .. for a bug that is on the
samba server side, so this is new functionality, which incidentally
allows a workaround for some buggy servers .. just saying :)

TTimo

Michael wrote:
> 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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