Samba 4.0 beta2 in two weeks time, roadmap to release?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sun Jun 10 20:13:43 MDT 2012


On Tue, 2012-06-05 at 19:07 -0500, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On 06/05/2012 12:15 PM, steve wrote:
> > On 06/05/2012 04:08 PM, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> >> Would it be too soon to attempt another beta on 19 June?
> >>
> >>
> >> What do folks think?
> > It would be a good idea.
> > 
> > How about renaming s3fs?
> > 
> > We would suggest s4fs
> 
> Why Steve?  Why rename without any real change in the file server
> functionality?  We do not change the name for giggles!  Every name
> change impacts a lot of integrators who rely on our consistency.  I'm
> totally against renaming s3fs unless there is real and significant
> change or real and significant benefit to the integrator and to the end
> user.

I've updated the wiki to explain that s3fs is about supporting SMB3:
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/s3fs#Why_is_this_called_s3fs.3F

(This wasn't the original reason, but given current development it fits
quite well). 

Andrew Bartlett

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