The CIFS VFS is a virtual file system for Linux to allow access to servers and storage appliances compliant with the SNIA CIFS specification version 1.0 or later.
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Many bugfixes and enhancements. The CIFS VFS now passes most POSIX tests attempted to Samba servers (and some to Windows servers) from CIFS VFS on Linux 2.4 clients. Support has been added for mknod of devices/FIFOs. Performance of file creation has been greatly improved. Port 139 (Netbios-over-TCP) is improved (allowing limited support for NT4 servers, not just Windows 200x, Samba, etc.). Per-mount statistics have been added. The mount.cifs helper is improved, and supports new optional features such as suid mounts and credential files.
A problem with captive threads hanging around at unmount time was fixed, 2.5.42-pre changes to superblock layout were supported, wasteful allocation of SMB buffers was fixed, more oplock handling was added, and stylistic updates were made to match the kernel style. Additional filesystem statistics were added to /proc/fs/cifs, more pieces of NTLMv2 and CIFS Packet Signing enablement were included, and the call to sleep_on was replaced with wait_on_event. mount no longer requires the -unc mount option. This version has been included in the Linux 2.5.42 kernel.
This release adds support for CIFS Unix Extensions (e.g., chmod,
symlinks, chown to Samba), works fully on big endian hardware such as
Power and zSeries, not just Intel, adds raw NTLMSSP support (more
secure session establishment to Windows and current Samba servers),
fixes problems found in running the Connectathon and fsx POSIX file
API tests, fixes stability under network stress, fixes byterange lock
handling (range was one byte too short), and rewrites connection/mount
logic as well as readdir code to fix various bugs.
