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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO index 066ffddc3964..396ecfd6ff4a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Version 2.03 August 1, 2014 +Version 2.04 September 13, 2017 A Partial List of Missing Features ================================== @@ -8,73 +8,69 @@ for visible, important contributions to this module. Here is a partial list of the known problems and missing features: a) SMB3 (and SMB3.02) missing optional features: - - RDMA + - RDMA (started) - multichannel (started) - directory leases (improved metadata caching) - T10 copy offload (copy chunk is only mechanism supported) - - encrypted shares b) improved sparse file support c) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than -using FindNotify or equivalent. - (started) +using Directory Leases d) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems) -e) improve support for very old servers (OS/2 and Win9x for example) -Including support for changing the time remotely (utimes command). +e) Better optimize open to reduce redundant opens (using reference +counts more) and to improve use of compounding in SMB3 to reduce +number of roundtrips. -f) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the -extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases. - -g) 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). - -h) Add support for storing symlink info to Windows servers -in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize. - -i) Finish inotify support so kde and gnome file list windows +f) Finish inotify 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. -j) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of +g) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of the CIFS statistics (started) -k) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs +h) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs (requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX -l) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount) +i) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount) -m) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per +j) 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. +exists. Also better integration with winbind for resolving SID owners + +k) Add tools to take advantage of more smb3 specific ioctls and features + +l) encrypted file support + +m) improved stats gathering, tools (perhaps integration with nfsometer?) -n) DOS attrs - returned as pseudo-xattr in Samba format (check VFAT and NTFS for this too) +n) allow setting more NTFS/SMB3 file attributes remotely (currently limited to compressed +file attribute via chflags) and improve user space tools for managing and +viewing them. -o) mount check for unmatched uids +o) mount helper GUI (to simplify the various configuration options on mount) -p) Add support for new vfs entry point for fallocate +p) autonegotiation of dialects (offering more than one dialect ie SMB3.02, +SMB3, SMB2.1 not just SMB3). -q) Add tools to take advantage of cifs/smb3 specific ioctls and features -such as "CopyChunk" (fast server side file copy) +q) Allow mount.cifs to be more verbose in reporting errors with dialect +or unsupported feature errors. -r) encrypted file support +r) updating cifs documentation, and user guid. -s) improved stats gathering, tools (perhaps integration with nfsometer?) +s) Addressing bugs found by running a broader set of xfstests in standard +file system xfstest suite. -t) allow setting more NTFS/SMB3 file attributes remotely (currently limited to compressed -file attribute via chflags) +t) split cifs and smb3 support into separate modules so legacy (and less +secure) CIFS dialect can be disabled in environments that don't need it +and simplify the code. -u) mount helper GUI (to simplify the various configuration options on mount) +u) Finish up SMB3.1.1 dialect support +v) POSIX Extensions for SMB3.1.1 KNOWN BUGS ==================================== |