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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-14 08:15:42 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-02-14 08:15:42 +0300 |
| commit | 9468482bd4c3b89abe04a770848d5eaa1ea830b0 (patch) | |
| tree | 7bac4349702c6414e78d83e6d6febd633177f52a /fs/Kconfig | |
| parent | 551a10c7fc14640d484ee3dda699758041d8123f (diff) | |
| parent | 8af18971584d1e05770560206cfdfd1d6ba8a17f (diff) | |
| download | linux-9468482bd4c3b89abe04a770848d5eaa1ea830b0.tar.xz | |
Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
[CIFS] on reconnect to Samba - reset the unix capabilities
[CIFS] Allow update of EOF on remote extend of file
[CIFS] POSIX CIFS Extensions (continued) - POSIX Open
[CIFS] Additional POSIX CIFS Extensions infolevels
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/Kconfig | 29 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig index 488521ed9e9b..a722b5a3f752 100644 --- a/fs/Kconfig +++ b/fs/Kconfig @@ -1864,20 +1864,14 @@ config CIFS file servers such as Windows 2000 (including Windows 2003, NT 4 and Windows XP) as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS server support for Linux and many other operating systems). Limited - support for Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. - You must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers - such as OS/2 and DOS. + support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as well. The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced - network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, + network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers, including support for dfs (hierarchical name space), secure per-user session establishment, safe distributed caching (oplock), optional - packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements, - and optional Winbind (nsswitch) integration. You do not need to enable - cifs if running only a (Samba) server. It is possible to enable both - smbfs and cifs (e.g. if you are using CIFS for accessing Windows 2003 - and Samba 3 servers, and smbfs for accessing old servers). If you need - to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. + packet signing, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. + If you need to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y. config CIFS_STATS bool "CIFS statistics" @@ -1970,14 +1964,13 @@ config CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL help Enables cifs features under testing. These features are - experimental and currently include support for writepages - (multipage writebehind performance improvements) and directory - change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY) as well as some security - improvements. Some also depend on setting at runtime the - pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental (which is disabled by - default). See the file fs/cifs/README for more details. - - If unsure, say N. + experimental and currently include DFS support and directory + change notification ie fcntl(F_DNOTIFY), as well as the upcall + mechanism which will be used for Kerberos session negotiation + and uid remapping. Some of these features also may depend on + setting a value of 1 to the pseudo-file /proc/fs/cifs/Experimental + (which is disabled by default). See the file fs/cifs/README + for more details. If unsure, say N. config CIFS_UPCALL bool "Kerberos/SPNEGO advanced session setup (EXPERIMENTAL)" |