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From: Steve French <smfrench@...>
To: <linux-cifs-client@...>
Cc: <sfrench@...>, linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...>
Subject: Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction points
Date: Thursday, January 10, 2008 - 4:28 pm

> to CIFS not supporting DFS junction points.  Any projected date for that

I anticipate that it will make Linux kernel 2.6.25 (marked
experimental) and eventually in a cifs version 1.53 backported for
older kernels.

Most of the support required for CIFS DFS for the Linux client has
been written, reviewed and merged already.  The servers (Samba,
NetApp, Windows etc.) have supported DFS for years.   This week I am
reviewing four reasonably small patches to the Linux cifs client from
Igor Mammedov (also on the linux-cifs-client mailing list) that
provide the remaining pieces on the client side.  Igor has done some
excellent work here.

The two questions being discussed are:
1) the size of the mount data retained for each implicit submount
which occurs when we cross a DFS junction
2) the structure used to pass the dfs referral info around


-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction po..., Steve French, (Thu Jan 10, 4:28 pm)
Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction po..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Jan 11, 5:07 am)
Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction po..., Christoph Hellwig, (Wed Feb 6, 12:07 am)
Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction po..., Steve French, (Wed Feb 6, 9:43 am)
Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction po..., Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Feb 7, 2:25 pm)
Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction po..., Steve French, (Fri Feb 8, 1:27 am)
Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction po..., Steve French, (Thu Feb 7, 7:30 pm)
Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support DFS junction po..., Steve French, (Fri Jan 11, 12:05 pm)
review 5, was Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support D..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Jan 13, 4:21 pm)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Q (Igor Mammedov), (Fri Feb 15, 12:37 pm)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Q (Igor Mammedov), (Tue Mar 4, 8:38 am)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sat Mar 8, 2:41 pm)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Feb 15, 1:05 pm)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Steve French, (Fri Feb 15, 5:02 pm)
Re[2]: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date ..., Q, (Sat Feb 16, 4:51 am)
Re: Re[2]: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected d..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sat Feb 16, 9:32 am)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Christoph Hellwig, (Fri Feb 15, 6:11 pm)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Steve French, (Mon Feb 25, 4:25 pm)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sat Mar 8, 2:43 pm)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Steve French, (Mon Mar 10, 11:34 pm)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Jeff Layton, (Tue Mar 11, 8:39 am)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., simo, (Sun Mar 16, 11:14 pm)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 5, was Re: projected date for..., Steve French, (Tue Feb 19, 12:51 am)
review 4, was Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support D..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Jan 13, 4:19 pm)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 4, was Re: projected date for..., Q (Igor Mammedov), (Mon Jan 14, 9:15 am)
Re: [linux-cifs-client] review 4, was Re: projected date for..., Christoph Hellwig, (Mon Jan 14, 5:53 pm)
review 3, was Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support D..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Jan 13, 3:50 pm)
review 2, was Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support D..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Jan 13, 3:48 pm)
Re: review 2, was Re: projected date for mount.cifs to suppo..., Steve French, (Sun Jan 13, 5:35 pm)
review 1, was Re: projected date for mount.cifs to support D..., Christoph Hellwig, (Sun Jan 13, 3:40 pm)
Re: review 1, was Re: projected date for mount.cifs to suppo..., Steve French, (Sun Jan 13, 5:26 pm)