Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:34:15 -0800 | From | Steve Langasek <> | Subject | Re: [2.6 patch] remove smbfs |
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On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 02:47:17AM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > smbfs has the unfortunate quality of momentum. A lot of users aren't > > aware of CIFS at all since smbfs basically does what they need it to > > do. Some extra warning for those users would be nice.
> And many users will start whining loudly that the not deprecated driver > (in this case cifs) has this or that bug not before the patch to finally > remove the deprecated feature got applied or at least posted.
> And will demand that it therefore does not get removed.
We've had about 3 of these in Debian since deciding to cut it from the upcoming release. (The kicker for us was the samba security update that wasn't tested with smbfs as a client.) The key regressions of interest relative to smbfs seem to be:
- lack of DFS support - lack of netbios name resolution for UNC share names
The former seems to be a kernel issue whose resolution is in progress, and I think the latter would have to be addressed in the userspace mount tools?
-- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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