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@@ -1601,9 +1601,10 @@ config CIFS
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PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
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file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4
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and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS
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- server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Currently
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- you must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
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- such as Windows 9x and OS/2.
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+ server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited
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+ support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well.
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+ You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
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+ such as OS/2 and DOS.
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The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
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network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
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@@ -1614,7 +1615,7 @@ config CIFS
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cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both
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smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003
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and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need
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- to mount to Samba or Windows 2003 servers from this machine, say Y.
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+ to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
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config CIFS_STATS
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bool "CIFS statistics"
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@@ -1623,8 +1624,22 @@ config CIFS_STATS
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Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
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mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
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+config CIFS_STATS2
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+ bool "CIFS extended statistics"
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+ depends on CIFS_STATS
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+ help
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+ Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
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+ request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
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+ allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
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+ value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
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+ These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
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+ and memory utilization.
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+
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+ Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
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+ or tuning, say N.
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+
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config CIFS_XATTR
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- bool "CIFS extended attributes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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+ bool "CIFS extended attributes"
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depends on CIFS
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help
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Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
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@@ -1636,11 +1651,11 @@ config CIFS_XATTR
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prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
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(used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
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this time.
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-
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+
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If unsure, say N.
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config CIFS_POSIX
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- bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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+ bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
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depends on CIFS_XATTR
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help
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Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
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@@ -1653,10 +1668,28 @@ config CIFS_POSIX
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config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
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bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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- depends on CIFS
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+ depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
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+ help
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+ Enables cifs features under testing. These features are
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+ experimental and currently include support for writepages
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+ (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory
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+ change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security
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+ improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the
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+ pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by
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+ default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details.
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+
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+ If unsure, say N.
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+
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+config CIFS_UPCALL
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+ bool "CIFS Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)"
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+ depends on CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL
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+ select CONNECTOR
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help
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- Enables cifs features under testing. These features
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- are highly experimental. If unsure, say N.
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+ Enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which will be used to contact
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+ userspace helper utilities to provide SPNEGO packaged Kerberos
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+ tickets which are needed to mount to certain secure servers
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+ (for which more secure Kerberos authentication is required). If
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+ unsure, say N.
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config NCP_FS
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tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
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