svn commit: samba-web r524 - in trunk/news/announcements: .

[deryck at samba.org]

Author: deryck
Date: 2005-01-26 22:30:15 +0000 (Wed, 26 Jan 2005)
New Revision: 524

WebSVN: http://websvn.samba.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi?view=rev&root=samba-web&rev=524

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Add news item on linux cifs client 1.28 features.

deryck

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   trunk/news/announcements/cifs_client_1.28.html


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Added: trunk/news/announcements/cifs_client_1.28.html
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+    <h3><a name="cifs_client_1.28">Linux CIFS Client 1.28 Improvements</a></h3> 
+        
+    <div class="article">
+    <p>The recent release of Linux kernel version 2.6.10 includes a much
+improved CIFS client for Samba (and other CIFS servers), version 1.28 of
+the Linux CIFS client. Manipulating POSIX ACLs (getfacl, setfacl) now is possible to
+servers which support this feature including Samba server version 3.0.11pre1
+and later. This release also fixes a key stress bug (which could cause
+premature session reconnections when the socket API returned unusually
+small responses), as well as two important fixes for readdir. In
+addition, the maximum path name supported on the client has now been
+increased to be larger than the size supported on the Samba server.  
+Module initialization options now are available for configuring the CIFS
+buffer sizes and maximum number of simultaneous requests.  New mount
+options include a new "directio" mount option (which disables client
+side caching), also a new option to report persistent inode numbers from
+the server if they are available.  Performance has also been improved,
+and the CIFS client when mounted to Samba server can now handle POSIX
+semantics sufficiently well to pass all key POSIX testcases (except byte
+range locking) and even pass most of these tests when mounted to Windows
+servers.</p>
+
+<p>See the changelog fs/cifs/CHANGES and fs/cifs/README for additional
+details.  A patch for 2.6.8 based kernels will be made available on the
+<a href="http://linux-cifs.samba.org">project page</a>.</p>
+    </div>
+        
+