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1version 1.34 April 29, 2005 1version 1.36 September 6, 2005
2 2
3A Partial List of Missing Features 3A Partial List of Missing Features
4================================== 4==================================
@@ -7,14 +7,14 @@ Contributions are welcome. There are plenty of opportunities
7for visible, important contributions to this module. Here 7for visible, important contributions to this module. Here
8is a partial list of the known problems and missing features: 8is a partial list of the known problems and missing features:
9 9
10a) Support for SecurityDescriptors for chmod/chgrp/chown so 10a) Support for SecurityDescriptors(Windows/CIFS ACLs) for chmod/chgrp/chown
11these can be supported for Windows servers 11so that these operations can be supported to Windows servers
12 12
13b) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping 13b) Mapping POSIX ACLs (and eventually NFSv4 ACLs) to CIFS
14better) 14SecurityDescriptors
15 15
16c) multi-user mounts - multiplexed sessionsetups over single vc 16c) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
17(ie tcp session) - more testing needed 17better)
18 18
19d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started) 19d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started)
20 20
@@ -29,12 +29,17 @@ f) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than
29using FindNotify or equivalent. - (started) 29using FindNotify or equivalent. - (started)
30 30
31g) A few byte range testcases fail due to POSIX vs. Windows/CIFS 31g) A few byte range testcases fail due to POSIX vs. Windows/CIFS
32style byte range lock differences 32style byte range lock differences. Save byte range locks so
33reconnect can replay them.
33 34
34h) quota support 35h) Support unlock all (unlock 0,MAX_OFFSET)
36by unlocking all known byte range locks that we locked on the file.
37
38i) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls
39to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems)
35 40
36j) finish writepages support (multi-page write behind for improved 41j) finish writepages support (multi-page write behind for improved
37performance) and syncpage 42performance) and syncpage. Started by Shaggy.
38 43
39k) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the 44k) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the
40extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases. 45extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases.
@@ -57,20 +62,18 @@ p) Add support for storing symlink and fifo info to Windows servers
57in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize. 62in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize.
58 63
59q) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows 64q) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows
60will autorefresh (started) 65will autorefresh (partially complete by Asser). Needs minor kernel
66vfs change to support removing D_NOTIFY on a file.
61 67
62r) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of 68r) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of
63the CIFS statistics (started) 69the CIFS statistics (started)
64 70
65q) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs 71s) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
66(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX 72(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX
67 73
68r) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount) 74t) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
69
70s) Allow remapping of last remaining character (\) to +0xF000 which
71(this character is valid for POSIX but not for Windows)
72 75
73t) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per 76u) 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 77mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping
75exists. This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to 78exists. This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to
76allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server 79allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server
@@ -78,6 +81,17 @@ and client. Add new protocol request to the CIFS protocol
78standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a 81standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a
79particular uid. 82particular uid.
80 83
84v) Add support for CIFS Unix and also the newer POSIX extensions to the
85server side for Samba 4.
86
87w) Finish up the dos time conversion routines needed to return old server
88time to the client (default time, of now or time 0 is used now for these
89very old servers)
90
91x) Add support for OS/2 (LANMAN 1.2 and LANMAN2.1 based SMB servers)
92
93y) Finish testing of Windows 9x/Windows ME server support (started).
94
81KNOWN BUGS (updated April 29, 2005) 95KNOWN BUGS (updated April 29, 2005)
82==================================== 96====================================
83See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for 97See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for