[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 00/15] cifs: implement multisession mounts (RFC)

[Jamie Lokier]

Jeff Layton wrote:
> To be honest, I have doubts anyway about whether we should take this
> patch into what seems to be considered a legacy codebase these days.
> It's rather difficult to bolt this functionality onto the existing CIFS
> codebase. It's probably more suited to putting into the newer SMB2
> codebase. That said, it'll probably be just as difficult to do this
> there since most of that code was copied from CIFS.

Legacy?

Maybe only in environments where everyone is running only Windows
servers, all of them less than 2 years old :-)  (I've yet to see such
an environment, btw).

The stable version of Samba (3.x) supports only SMB1.

Samba 4, which does support SMB2, is "not yet in a state where it can
replace existing production deployments"; the Ubuntu package
description says "experimental, should not be used in production".

In fact when I wanted to deploy an SMB2 service from Linux recently
(to get better file link semantics on a Windows client), I gave up on
it, it was too disruptive to replace Samba 3 with Samba 4.

This per-user patchset you've produced sounds quite useful, thank you.
Please don't think you are targetting only a few horribly outdated
environments with it :-)

-- Jamie