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1Version 1.39 November 30, 2005 1Version 1.49 April 26, 2007
2 2
3A Partial List of Missing Features 3A Partial List of Missing Features
4================================== 4==================================
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ better)
18 18
19d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started) 19d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started)
20 20
21e) NTLMv2 authentication (mostly implemented - double check 21e) More testing of NTLMv2 authentication (mostly implemented - double check
22that NTLMv2 signing works, also need to cleanup now unneeded SessSetup code in 22that NTLMv2 signing works, also need to cleanup now unneeded SessSetup code in
23fs/cifs/connect.c) 23fs/cifs/connect.c)
24 24
@@ -27,55 +27,44 @@ used (Kerberos or NTLMSSP). Signing alreadyimplemented for NTLM
27and raw NTLMSSP already. This is important when enabling 27and raw NTLMSSP already. This is important when enabling
28extended security and mounting to Windows 2003 Servers 28extended security and mounting to Windows 2003 Servers
29 29
30f) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than 30g) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than
31using FindNotify or equivalent. - (started) 31using FindNotify or equivalent. - (started)
32 32
33g) A few byte range testcases fail due to POSIX vs. Windows/CIFS 33h) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls
34style byte range lock differences. Save byte range locks so
35reconnect can replay them.
36
37h) Support unlock all (unlock 0,MAX_OFFSET)
38by unlocking all known byte range locks that we locked on the file.
39
40i) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls
41to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems) 34to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems)
42 35
43j) investigate sync behavior (including syncpage) and check 36i) investigate sync behavior (including syncpage) and check
44for proper behavior of intr/nointr 37for proper behavior of intr/nointr
45 38
46k) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the 39j) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the
47extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases. 40extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases.
48 41
49l) finish support for IPv6. This is mostly complete but 42k) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the
50needs a simple conversion of ipv6 to sin6_addr from the
51address in string representation.
52
53m) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the
54oplock breaks coming from windows srv. Piggyback identical file 43oplock breaks coming from windows srv. Piggyback identical file
55opens on top of each other by incrementing reference count rather 44opens on top of each other by incrementing reference count rather
56than resending (helps reduce server resource utilization and avoid 45than resending (helps reduce server resource utilization and avoid
57spurious oplock breaks). 46spurious oplock breaks).
58 47
59o) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read 48l) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read
60at a time when 8 pages or more are requested. In conjuntion 49at a time when 8 pages or more are requested. In conjuntion
61add support for async_cifs_readpages. 50add support for async_cifs_readpages.
62 51
63p) Add support for storing symlink info to Windows servers 52m) Add support for storing symlink info to Windows servers
64in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize. 53in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize.
65 54
66q) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows 55n) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows
67will autorefresh (partially complete by Asser). Needs minor kernel 56will autorefresh (partially complete by Asser). Needs minor kernel
68vfs change to support removing D_NOTIFY on a file. 57vfs change to support removing D_NOTIFY on a file.
69 58
70r) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of 59o) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of
71the CIFS statistics (started) 60the CIFS statistics (started)
72 61
73s) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs 62p) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
74(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX 63(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX
75 64
76t) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount) 65q) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
77 66
78u) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per 67r) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per
79mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping 68mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping
80exists. This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to 69exists. This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to
81allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server 70allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server
@@ -83,19 +72,26 @@ and client. Add new protocol request to the CIFS protocol
83standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a 72standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a
84particular uid. 73particular uid.
85 74
86v) Add support for CIFS Unix and also the newer POSIX extensions to the 75s) Add support for CIFS Unix and also the newer POSIX extensions to the
87server side for Samba 4. 76server side for Samba 4.
88 77
89w) Finish up the dos time conversion routines needed to return old server 78t) In support for OS/2 (LANMAN 1.2 and LANMAN2.1 based SMB servers)
90time to the client (default time, of now or time 0 is used now for these
91very old servers)
92
93x) In support for OS/2 (LANMAN 1.2 and LANMAN2.1 based SMB servers)
94need to add ability to set time to server (utimes command) 79need to add ability to set time to server (utimes command)
95 80
96y) Finish testing of Windows 9x/Windows ME server support (started). 81u) DOS attrs - returned as pseudo-xattr in Samba format (check VFAT and NTFS for this too)
82
83v) mount check for unmatched uids - and uid override
84
85w) Add mount option for Linux extension disable per mount, and partial
86disable per mount (uid off, symlink/fifo/mknod on but what about posix acls?)
97 87
98KNOWN BUGS (updated February 26, 2007) 88x) Fix Samba 3 server to handle Linux kernel aio so dbench with lots of
89processes can proceed better in parallel (on the server)
90
91y) Fix Samba 3 to handle reads/writes over 127K (and remove the cifs mount
92restriction of wsize max being 127K)
93
94KNOWN BUGS (updated April 24, 2007)
99==================================== 95====================================
100See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for 96See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for
101current bug list. 97current bug list.
@@ -127,10 +123,3 @@ negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers.
1274) More exhaustively test against less common servers. More testing 1234) More exhaustively test against less common servers. More testing
128against Windows 9x, Windows ME servers. 124against Windows 9x, Windows ME servers.
129 125
130DOS attrs - returned as pseudo-xattr in Samba format (check VFAT and NTFS for this too)
131
132mount check for unmatched uids - and uid override
133
134Add mount option for Linux extension disable per mount, and partial disable per mount (uid off, symlink/fifo/mknod on but what about posix acls?)
135
136Free threads at umount --force that are stuck on the sesSem