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-version 1.34 April 29, 2005
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+version 1.36 September 6, 2005
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A Partial List of Missing Features
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@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ Contributions are welcome. There are plenty of opportunities
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for visible, important contributions to this module. Here
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is a partial list of the known problems and missing features:
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-a) Support for SecurityDescriptors for chmod/chgrp/chown so
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-these can be supported for Windows servers
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+a) Support for SecurityDescriptors(Windows/CIFS ACLs) for chmod/chgrp/chown
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+so that these operations can be supported to Windows servers
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-b) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
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-better)
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+b) Mapping POSIX ACLs (and eventually NFSv4 ACLs) to CIFS
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+SecurityDescriptors
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-c) multi-user mounts - multiplexed sessionsetups over single vc
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-(ie tcp session) - more testing needed
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+c) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
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+better)
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d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started)
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@@ -29,12 +29,17 @@ f) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than
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using FindNotify or equivalent. - (started)
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g) A few byte range testcases fail due to POSIX vs. Windows/CIFS
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-style byte range lock differences
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+style byte range lock differences. Save byte range locks so
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+reconnect can replay them.
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-h) quota support
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+h) Support unlock all (unlock 0,MAX_OFFSET)
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+by unlocking all known byte range locks that we locked on the file.
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+
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+i) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls
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+to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems)
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j) finish writepages support (multi-page write behind for improved
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-performance) and syncpage
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+performance) and syncpage. Started by Shaggy.
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k) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the
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extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases.
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@@ -57,20 +62,18 @@ p) Add support for storing symlink and fifo info to Windows servers
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in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize.
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q) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows
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-will autorefresh (started)
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+will autorefresh (partially complete by Asser). Needs minor kernel
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+vfs change to support removing D_NOTIFY on a file.
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r) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of
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the CIFS statistics (started)
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-q) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
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+s) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
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(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX
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-r) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
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-
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-s) Allow remapping of last remaining character (\) to +0xF000 which
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-(this character is valid for POSIX but not for Windows)
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+t) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
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-t) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per
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+u) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per
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mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping
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exists. This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to
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allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server
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@@ -78,6 +81,17 @@ and client. Add new protocol request to the CIFS protocol
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standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a
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particular uid.
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+v) Add support for CIFS Unix and also the newer POSIX extensions to the
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+server side for Samba 4.
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+
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+w) Finish up the dos time conversion routines needed to return old server
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+time to the client (default time, of now or time 0 is used now for these
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+very old servers)
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+
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+x) Add support for OS/2 (LANMAN 1.2 and LANMAN2.1 based SMB servers)
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+
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+y) Finish testing of Windows 9x/Windows ME server support (started).
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+
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KNOWN BUGS (updated April 29, 2005)
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====================================
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See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for
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