Disable SMB2 for 3.6?

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Thu Jul 7 09:05:46 MDT 2011


On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 11:01:10AM -0400, simo wrote:
> > It might fix it, but the fact that this went undetected for
> > so long makes this non-shippable IMO.
> 
> 
> SMB2 is one of the key features of 3.6.0, if it is not ready it is a
> blocker for the release IMO.

We just can't ship if SMB2 is compiled in. The basic
architecture of the server is many months old, and nobody
detected this flaw. There have been many improvements in 
3.6, so I think shipping 3.6 without
SMB2 is still worth it. SMB2 should wait until 4.0.

Volker

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