GSOC 2015 Aspirant for Improving SMB3 protocol improvements

[Saket Sinha]

Hi David,

        I have tried reaching out to linux-cifs mailing list and Steve
French earlier even but haven't found much of a response form either one.
I guess this mailing list is not that friendly to novice and only cater
needs and discussions of frequent commiters and core samba developers.

If I do not get a response here, is there any where else I can ask for help
for getting started  ?

Regards,
Saket SInha







Regards,
Saket Sinha

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 4:31 AM, David Disseldorp <ddiss at suse.de> wrote:

> Hi Saket Sinha,
>
> Thanks for your interest...
>
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 17:15:32 +0530, Saket Sinha wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am looking forward to paticipate in GSOC 2015 with Samba community for
> > Improving SMB3 protocol improvements.
> >
> > This is to discuss the idea further in order to build my understanding of
> > the project.
> >
> > The TODOs listed here show the following -
> >
> >    1. Support for using multiple network interfaces at once under the
> same
> >    mount (SMB3 multichannel)
> >    2. Improved directory and metadata caching ("directory oplocks")
> >    3. Improved failover in clustering environments ("persistent file
> >    handles" and more generally SMB3 "continuous availability" support)
> >    4. File copy offload (there are multiple server side copy mechanisms
> >    possible with SMB3, T10 copy offload, SMB2/SMB3 "copy chunk" as well
> as an
> >    older cifs mechanism "SMB Copy" that could be implemented, compared
> and
> >    optimized).
> >    5. HA availability improvements on server and/or client (the SMB3
> >    "Witness protocol")
> >
> >  I would like to be guided which one I should pick up to get started.
>
> These tasks all relate to the Linux kernel CIFS/SMB client (cifs.ko), so
> would be best answered on the cifs.ko mailing list (cc'ed). I'd suggest
> only pursuing these tasks if you have a reasonably solid background in C
> programming.
>
> Cheers, David
>