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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt index 2fac91ac96cf..67756607246e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt @@ -1,24 +1,28 @@ - This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System - (CIFS) protocol which is the successor to the Server Message Block + This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 NAS protocol as well + older dialects such as the Common Internet File System (CIFS) + protocol which was the successor to the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now called SMB2 and SMB3. These dialects are also supported by the CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network - file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012 + file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016 as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS - server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so + server support for Linux and many other operating systems), Apple + systems, as well as most Network Attached Storage vendors, so this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of servers. The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network - file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better - POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, high - performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet + file system function for SMB3 compliant servers, including advanced + security features, excellent parallelized high performance i/o, better + POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, encryption, + high performance safe distributed caching (leases/oplocks), optional packet signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support - the CIFS Unix extensions, the combination can provide a reasonable - alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, - not just in Linux to Windows environments. + the CIFS Unix extensions (and in the future SMB3 POSIX extensions), + the combination can provide a reasonable alternative to other network and + cluster file systems for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, + not just in Linux to Windows (or Linux to Mac) environments. This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from |