Re: [a bit OT] Performance Issue with jcifs and NetApp

Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> On Behalf Of André Warnier
>> Subject: Re: [jcifs] Performance Issue with jcifs and NetApp
> 
>> as far as I know the CIFS filesystem implementation under Linux is using much
>> of the same codebase from samba.org.
> 
> Don't think so.  The CIFS client in the Linux kernel appears to be a new implementation (well, new ten years ago), originally from Steve French at IBM Austin.
> 

Mmmm. I was just going by the fact that - again if I remember correctly - one has to 
install the "samba" package, in order to be able to mount CIFS filesystems.

This page seems to lean toward my interpretation though :
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils