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-Version 1.39 November 30, 2005
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+Version 1.49 April 26, 2007
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A Partial List of Missing Features
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ better)
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d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started)
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-e) NTLMv2 authentication (mostly implemented - double check
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+e) More testing of NTLMv2 authentication (mostly implemented - double check
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that NTLMv2 signing works, also need to cleanup now unneeded SessSetup code in
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fs/cifs/connect.c)
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@@ -27,55 +27,44 @@ used (Kerberos or NTLMSSP). Signing alreadyimplemented for NTLM
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and raw NTLMSSP already. This is important when enabling
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extended security and mounting to Windows 2003 Servers
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-f) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than
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+g) 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. Save byte range locks so
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-reconnect can replay them.
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-
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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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+h) 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) investigate sync behavior (including syncpage) and check
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+i) investigate sync behavior (including syncpage) and check
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for proper behavior of intr/nointr
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-k) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the
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+j) 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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-l) finish support for IPv6. This is mostly complete but
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-needs a simple conversion of ipv6 to sin6_addr from the
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-address in string representation.
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-m) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the
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+k) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the
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oplock breaks coming from windows srv. Piggyback identical file
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opens on top of each other by incrementing reference count rather
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than resending (helps reduce server resource utilization and avoid
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spurious oplock breaks).
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-o) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read
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+l) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read
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at a time when 8 pages or more are requested. In conjuntion
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add support for async_cifs_readpages.
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-p) Add support for storing symlink info to Windows servers
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+m) Add support for storing symlink 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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+n) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows
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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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+o) 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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-s) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
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+p) 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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-t) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
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+q) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
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-u) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per
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+r) 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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@@ -83,19 +72,26 @@ 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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+s) 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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-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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-x) In support for OS/2 (LANMAN 1.2 and LANMAN2.1 based SMB servers)
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+t) In support for OS/2 (LANMAN 1.2 and LANMAN2.1 based SMB servers)
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need to add ability to set time to server (utimes command)
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-y) Finish testing of Windows 9x/Windows ME server support (started).
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+u) DOS attrs - returned as pseudo-xattr in Samba format (check VFAT and NTFS for this too)
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+v) mount check for unmatched uids - and uid override
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+w) Add mount option for Linux extension disable per mount, and partial
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+disable per mount (uid off, symlink/fifo/mknod on but what about posix acls?)
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-KNOWN BUGS (updated February 26, 2007)
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+x) Fix Samba 3 server to handle Linux kernel aio so dbench with lots of
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+processes can proceed better in parallel (on the server)
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+y) Fix Samba 3 to handle reads/writes over 127K (and remove the cifs mount
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+restriction of wsize max being 127K)
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+KNOWN BUGS (updated April 24, 2007)
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====================================
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See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for
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current bug list.
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@@ -127,10 +123,3 @@ negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers.
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4) More exhaustively test against less common servers. More testing
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against Windows 9x, Windows ME servers.
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-DOS attrs - returned as pseudo-xattr in Samba format (check VFAT and NTFS for this too)
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-mount check for unmatched uids - and uid override
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-Add mount option for Linux extension disable per mount, and partial disable per mount (uid off, symlink/fifo/mknod on but what about posix acls?)
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-Free threads at umount --force that are stuck on the sesSem
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