vserver 2.0 rc7

[linux-2.6.git] / fs / cifs / TODO

diff --git a/fs/cifs/TODO b/fs/cifs/TODO
index 05464a3..8cc8816 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/cifs/TODO
+++ b/fs/cifs/TODO
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-version 1.22 July 30, 2004 
+version 1.34 April 29, 2005
 
 A Partial List of Missing Features
 ==================================
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ b) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
 better)
 
 c) multi-user mounts - multiplexed sessionsetups over single vc
-(ie tcp session) - prettying up needed
+(ie tcp session) - more testing needed
 
 d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started)
 
@@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ k) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the
 extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases.
 
 l) finish support for IPv6.  This is mostly complete but
-needs a simple inet_pton like function to convert ipv6
-addresses in string representation.
+needs a simple conversion of ipv6 to sin6_addr from the
+address in string representation.
 
 m) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the
 oplock breaks coming from windows srv.  Piggyback identical file
@@ -50,28 +50,43 @@ than resending (helps reduce server resource utilization and avoid
 spurious oplock breaks).
 
 o) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read
-at a time when 8 pages or more are requested.  Evaluate whether
-reads larger than 16K would be helpful.
+at a time when 8 pages or more are requested. In conjuntion
+add support for async_cifs_readpages.
 
-p) For support of Windows9x/98 we need to retry failed mounts
-to *SMBSERVER (default server name) with the uppercase hostname
-in the RFC1001 session_init request.
-
-q) Add support for storing symlink and fifo info to Windows servers 
+p) Add support for storing symlink and fifo info to Windows servers 
 in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize.
 
-r) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows
-will autorefresh
+q) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows
+will autorefresh (started)
+
+r) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of
+the CIFS statistics (started)
+
+q) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
+(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX
+
+r) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
 
-s) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of
-the CIFS statistics
+s) Allow remapping of last remaining character (\) to +0xF000 which
+(this character is valid for POSIX but not for Windows)
 
-KNOWN BUGS (updated May 27, 2004)
+t) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per
+mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping
+exists.  This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to
+allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server
+and client.  Add new protocol request to the CIFS protocol 
+standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a
+particular uid.
+
+KNOWN BUGS (updated April 29, 2005)
 ====================================
+See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for
+current bug list.
+
 1) existing symbolic links (Windows reparse points) are recognized but
 can not be created remotely. They are implemented for Samba and those that
-support the CIFS Unix extensions but Samba has a bug currently handling
-symlink text beginning with slash
+support the CIFS Unix extensions, although earlier versions of Samba
+overly restrict the pathnames.
 2) follow_link and readdir code does not follow dfs junctions
 but recognizes them
 3) create of new files to FAT partitions on Windows servers can
@@ -83,9 +98,6 @@ Samba (may be unmappable due to POSIX to Windows lock model
 differences but worth investigating).  Also debug Samba to 
 see why lock test case 7 takes longer to complete to Samba
 than to Windows.
-5) implement search rewind (seeking backward in a readdir), which is
-necessary for one of the "special" subsection of posix file API
-tests in the Connectathon nfs test suite.
 
 Misc testing to do
 ==================
@@ -100,7 +112,5 @@ there are some easy changes that can be done to parallelize sequential writes,
 and when signing is disabled to request larger read sizes (larger than 
 negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers.
 
-4) More exhaustively test the recently added NT4 support against various
-NT4 service pack levels, and fix cifs_setattr for setting file times and 
-size to fall back to level 1 when error invalid level returned.
-
+4) More exhaustively test against less common servers.  More testing
+against Windows 9x, Windows ME servers.