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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-09-12 07:41:12 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-09-12 07:41:12 -0700 |
commit | 7b7a2f0a31c6c1ff53a3c87c0bca4f8d01471391 (patch) | |
tree | 17b0e72c8e996e581974bbbc0e7f68f07d87ab1e /Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO | |
parent | c3567f8a359b7917dcffa442301f88ed0a75211f (diff) | |
parent | 42873b0a282ac84a56e0e48c408beb62d0ad2917 (diff) |
Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6
Pull CIFS fixes from Steve French:
"CIFS update including case insensitive file name matching improvements
for UTF-8 to Unicode, various small cifs fixes, SMB2/SMB3 leasing
improvements, support for following SMB2 symlinks, SMB3 packet signing
improvements"
* 'for-next' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: (25 commits)
CIFS: Respect epoch value from create lease context v2
CIFS: Add create lease v2 context for SMB3
CIFS: Move parsing lease buffer to ops struct
CIFS: Move creating lease buffer to ops struct
CIFS: Store lease state itself rather than a mapped oplock value
CIFS: Replace clientCanCache* bools with an integer
[CIFS] quiet sparse compile warning
cifs: Start using per session key for smb2/3 for signature generation
cifs: Add a variable specific to NTLMSSP for key exchange.
cifs: Process post session setup code in respective dialect functions.
CIFS: convert to use le32_add_cpu()
CIFS: Fix missing lease break
CIFS: Fix a memory leak when a lease break comes
cifs: add winucase_convert.pl to Documentation/ directory
cifs: convert case-insensitive dentry ops to use new case conversion routines
cifs: add new case-insensitive conversion routines that are based on wchar_t's
[CIFS] Add Scott to list of cifs contributors
cifs: Move and expand MAX_SERVER_SIZE definition
cifs: Expand max share name length to 256
cifs: Move string length definitions to uapi
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..355abcdcda9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,129 @@ +Version 1.53 May 20, 2008 + +A Partial List of Missing Features +================================== + +Contributions are welcome. There are plenty of opportunities +for visible, important contributions to this module. Here +is a partial list of the known problems and missing features: + +a) Support for SecurityDescriptors(Windows/CIFS ACLs) for chmod/chgrp/chown +so that these operations can be supported to Windows servers + +b) Mapping POSIX ACLs (and eventually NFSv4 ACLs) to CIFS +SecurityDescriptors + +c) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping +better) + +d) Cleanup now unneeded SessSetup code in +fs/cifs/connect.c and add back in NTLMSSP code if any servers +need it + +e) fix NTLMv2 signing when two mounts with different users to same +server. + +f) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than +using FindNotify or equivalent. - (started) + +g) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls +to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems) + +h) investigate sync behavior (including syncpage) and check +for proper behavior of intr/nointr + +i) improve support for very old servers (OS/2 and Win9x for example) +Including support for changing the time remotely (utimes command). + +j) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the +extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases. + +k) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the +oplock breaks coming from windows srv. Piggyback identical file +opens on top of each other by incrementing reference count rather +than resending (helps reduce server resource utilization and avoid +spurious oplock breaks). + +l) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read +at a time when 8 pages or more are requested. In conjuntion +add support for async_cifs_readpages. + +m) Add support for storing symlink info to Windows servers +in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize. + +n) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows +will autorefresh (partially complete by Asser). Needs minor kernel +vfs change to support removing D_NOTIFY on a file. + +o) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of +the CIFS statistics (started) + +p) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs +(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX + +q) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount) + +r) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per +mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping +exists. This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to +allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server +and client. Add new protocol request to the CIFS protocol +standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a +particular uid. + +s) Add support for CIFS Unix and also the newer POSIX extensions to the +server side for Samba 4. + +t) In support for OS/2 (LANMAN 1.2 and LANMAN2.1 based SMB servers) +need to add ability to set time to server (utimes command) + +u) DOS attrs - returned as pseudo-xattr in Samba format (check VFAT and NTFS for this too) + +v) mount check for unmatched uids + +w) Add support for new vfs entry point for fallocate + +x) Fix Samba 3 server to handle Linux kernel aio so dbench with lots of +processes can proceed better in parallel (on the server) + +y) Fix Samba 3 to handle reads/writes over 127K (and remove the cifs mount +restriction of wsize max being 127K) + +KNOWN BUGS (updated April 24, 2007) +==================================== +See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for +current bug list. + +1) existing symbolic links (Windows reparse points) are recognized but +can not be created remotely. They are implemented for Samba and those that +support the CIFS Unix extensions, although earlier versions of Samba +overly restrict the pathnames. +2) follow_link and readdir code does not follow dfs junctions +but recognizes them +3) create of new files to FAT partitions on Windows servers can +succeed but still return access denied (appears to be Windows +server not cifs client problem) and has not been reproduced recently. +NTFS partitions do not have this problem. +4) Unix/POSIX capabilities are reset after reconnection, and affect +a few fields in the tree connection but we do do not know which +superblocks to apply these changes to. We should probably walk +the list of superblocks to set these. Also need to check the +flags on the second mount to the same share, and see if we +can do the same trick that NFS does to remount duplicate shares. + +Misc testing to do +================== +1) check out max path names and max path name components against various server +types. Try nested symlinks (8 deep). Return max path name in stat -f information + +2) Modify file portion of ltp so it can run against a mounted network +share and run it against cifs vfs in automated fashion. + +3) Additional performance testing and optimization using iozone and similar - +there are some easy changes that can be done to parallelize sequential writes, +and when signing is disabled to request larger read sizes (larger than +negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers. + +4) More exhaustively test against less common servers. More testing +against Windows 9x, Windows ME servers. + |