PC operating systems. The CIFS protocol is fully supported by
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). Currently
- you must use the smbfs client filesystem to access older SMB servers
- such as Windows 9x and OS/2.
+ 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.
The intent of the cifs module is to provide an advanced
network file system client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers,
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 2003 servers from this machine, say Y.
+ to mount to Samba or Windows from this machine, say Y.
config CIFS_STATS
bool "CIFS statistics"
Enabling this option will cause statistics for each server share
mounted by the cifs client to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats
+config CIFS_STATS2
+ bool "CIFS extended statistics"
+ depends on CIFS_STATS
+ help
+ Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
+ request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
+ allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
+ value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
+ These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
+ and memory utilization.
+
+ Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
+ or tuning, say N.
+
config CIFS_XATTR
- bool "CIFS extended attributes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ bool "CIFS extended attributes"
depends on CIFS
help
Extended attributes are name:value pairs associated with inodes by
prefaced by the user namespace prefix. The system namespace
(used by some filesystems to store ACLs) is not supported at
this time.
-
+
If unsure, say N.
config CIFS_POSIX
- bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ bool "CIFS POSIX Extensions"
depends on CIFS_XATTR
help
Enabling this option will cause the cifs client to attempt to
bool "CIFS Experimental Features (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on CIFS && EXPERIMENTAL
help
- Enables cifs features under testing. These features
- are highly experimental. If unsure, say N.
+ 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.
config NCP_FS
tristate "NCP file system support (to mount NetWare volumes)"
const int netfid, const unsigned int count,
const __u64 offset, unsigned int *nbytes,
struct kvec *iov, const int nvec, const int long_op);
+#endif /* CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL */
extern int CIFSGetSrvInodeNumber(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
const unsigned char *searchName, __u64 * inode_number,
const struct nls_table *nls_codepage,
int remap_special_chars);
-#endif /* CONFIG_CIFS_EXPERIMENTAL */
extern int cifs_convertUCSpath(char *target, const __le16 *source, int maxlen,
const struct nls_table * codepage);
extern int cifsConvertToUCS(__le16 * target, const char *source, int maxlen,