-version 1.22 July 30, 2004
+Version 1.39 November 30, 2005
A Partial List of Missing Features
==================================
for visible, important contributions to this module. Here
is a partial list of the known problems and missing features:
-a) Support for SecurityDescriptors for chmod/chgrp/chown so
-these can be supported for Windows servers
+a) Support for SecurityDescriptors(Windows/CIFS ACLs) for chmod/chgrp/chown
+so that these operations can be supported to Windows servers
-b) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
-better)
+b) Mapping POSIX ACLs (and eventually NFSv4 ACLs) to CIFS
+SecurityDescriptors
-c) multi-user mounts - multiplexed sessionsetups over single vc
-(ie tcp session) - prettying up needed
+c) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
+better)
d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started)
using FindNotify or equivalent. - (started)
g) A few byte range testcases fail due to POSIX vs. Windows/CIFS
-style byte range lock differences
+style byte range lock differences. Save byte range locks so
+reconnect can replay them.
-h) quota support
+h) Support unlock all (unlock 0,MAX_OFFSET)
+by unlocking all known byte range locks that we locked on the file.
-j) finish writepages support (multi-page write behind for improved
-performance) and syncpage
+i) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls
+to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems)
+
+j) investigate sync behavior (including syncpage) and check
+for proper behavior of intr/nointr
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
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.
-
-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.
+at a time when 8 pages or more are requested. In conjuntion
+add support for async_cifs_readpages.
-q) Add support for storing symlink and fifo info to Windows servers
+p) Add support for storing symlink 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 (partially complete by Asser). Needs minor kernel
+vfs change to support removing D_NOTIFY on a file.
+
+r) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of
+the CIFS statistics (started)
+
+s) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
+(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX
+
+t) 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
+u) 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 May 27, 2004)
+v) Add support for CIFS Unix and also the newer POSIX extensions to the
+server side for Samba 4.
+
+w) Finish up the dos time conversion routines needed to return old server
+time to the client (default time, of now or time 0 is used now for these
+very old servers)
+
+x) Add support for OS/2 (LANMAN 1.2 and LANMAN2.1 based SMB servers)
+
+y) Finish testing of Windows 9x/Windows ME server support (started).
+
+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
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
==================
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.
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