multisession CIFS mounts
Jeff Layton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.file-systems.cifs |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I've been working off and on for the last month or so to try and get multisession cifs mounts working. I have a design, and have some progress toward that end but it's not complete yet. I'm still hoping to get a prototype working by the time SambaXP rolls around. The more I work on it though, it's really turning out to be a major mess to bolt this onto the existing CIFS codebase. CIFS was just not put together with this sort of thing in mind and I have serious doubts as to whether this is something we can push into the upstream codebase. I plan to keep working on it, and may even get something working, but wanted to give you a heads up since I know you have some interest in getting this working for customers. I think this sort of thing needs to be designed into the core of the filesystem. In fact, I think we ought to shoot for making the SMB2 filesystem in linux to support multisession mounts. Doing anything else is going to just lead to an inferior user experience and lead to more confusion. Unfortunately, that basically means tossing what there does exist of smb2fs out the window since much of its core design is taken from CIFS. -- Jeff Layton <[email protected]>