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SubjectRe: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree

On Fri, 12 May 2006, John Kelly wrote:

> On Fri, 12 May 2006 17:03:56 +0200 (MEST), Jan Engelhardt
> <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote:
>
> >> > smbfs is a bit buggy and has no maintainer. Change it to shout at the user on
> >> > the first five mount attempts - tell them to switch to CIFS.
>
> >> > Come November we'll mark it BROKEN and see what happens.
>
> >Sorry for falling in late but we can't do that.
> >Win 98 (95 too?) shared can not be mounted with CIFS, it requires SMBFS.
>
> W98? He's dead, Jim.
>

huh, my wife has a laptop that she still uses that has w98 on it. And I do
use smbfs to sometimes communicate with it. Why upgrade when you don't
have to?

-- Steve

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