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authorJames Bottomley <jejb@titanic.(none)>2005-05-20 16:27:44 -0400
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@titanic.(none)>2005-05-20 16:27:44 -0400
commitad34ea2cc3845ef4dcd7d12fb0fa8484734bd672 (patch)
treead434400f5ecaa33b433c8f830e40792d8d6c05c /fs/cifs/TODO
parent90356ac3194bf91a441a5f9c3067af386ef62462 (diff)
parent88d7bd8cb9eb8d64bf7997600b0d64f7834047c5 (diff)
merge by hand - fix up rejections in Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
1version 1.22 July 30, 2004 1version 1.34 April 29, 2005
2 2
3A Partial List of Missing Features 3A Partial List of Missing Features
4================================== 4==================================
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ b) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
14better) 14better)
15 15
16c) multi-user mounts - multiplexed sessionsetups over single vc 16c) multi-user mounts - multiplexed sessionsetups over single vc
17(ie tcp session) - prettying up needed, and more testing needed 17(ie tcp session) - more testing needed
18 18
19d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started) 19d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started)
20 20
@@ -67,12 +67,26 @@ q) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
67 67
68r) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount) 68r) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
69 69
70KNOWN BUGS (updated December 10, 2004) 70s) Allow remapping of last remaining character (\) to +0xF000 which
71(this character is valid for POSIX but not for Windows)
72
73t) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per
74mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping
75exists. This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to
76allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server
77and client. Add new protocol request to the CIFS protocol
78standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a
79particular uid.
80
81KNOWN BUGS (updated April 29, 2005)
71==================================== 82====================================
83See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for
84current bug list.
85
721) existing symbolic links (Windows reparse points) are recognized but 861) existing symbolic links (Windows reparse points) are recognized but
73can not be created remotely. They are implemented for Samba and those that 87can not be created remotely. They are implemented for Samba and those that
74support the CIFS Unix extensions but Samba has a bug currently handling 88support the CIFS Unix extensions, although earlier versions of Samba
75symlink text beginning with slash 89overly restrict the pathnames.
762) follow_link and readdir code does not follow dfs junctions 902) follow_link and readdir code does not follow dfs junctions
77but recognizes them 91but recognizes them
783) create of new files to FAT partitions on Windows servers can 923) create of new files to FAT partitions on Windows servers can
@@ -98,7 +112,5 @@ there are some easy changes that can be done to parallelize sequential writes,
98and when signing is disabled to request larger read sizes (larger than 112and when signing is disabled to request larger read sizes (larger than
99negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers. 113negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers.
100 114
1014) More exhaustively test the recently added NT4 support against various 1154) More exhaustively test against less common servers. More testing
102NT4 service pack levels, and fix cifs_setattr for setting file times and 116against Windows 9x, Windows ME servers.
103size to fall back to level 1 when error invalid level returned.
104