CIFS VFS posted

John Newbigin jn at it.swin.edu.au
Wed Jun 19 18:12:03 GMT 2002


Steven French wrote:

> FYI - The CIFS VFS for Linux source has been posted to cifsvfs directory on
> cvs.samba.org
> 
> See http://us1.samba.org/samba/Linux_CIFS_client.html for more information.


What are the advantages of this over smbfs with my CIFS patches?.  I 
know at the moment the 2.4.x version of smbfs does not support locking 
but AFAIK that has been implemented in the 2.5 version.

John.


> 
> Any thoughts about whether a mail list and/or announce list should be
> created for this on sourceforge or somewhere else?
> 
> Steve French
> Senior Software Engineer
> Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
> phone: 512-838-2294
> email: sfrench at us.ibm.com
> 
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