1 version 1.34 April 29, 2005
3 A Partial List of Missing Features
4 ==================================
6 Contributions are welcome. There are plenty of opportunities
7 for visible, important contributions to this module. Here
8 is a partial list of the known problems and missing features:
10 a) Support for SecurityDescriptors for chmod/chgrp/chown so
11 these can be supported for Windows servers
13 b) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
16 c) multi-user mounts - multiplexed sessionsetups over single vc
17 (ie tcp session) - more testing needed
19 d) Kerberos/SPNEGO session setup support - (started)
21 e) NTLMv2 authentication (mostly implemented)
23 f) MD5-HMAC signing SMB PDUs when SPNEGO style SessionSetup
24 used (Kerberos or NTLMSSP). Signing alreadyimplemented for NTLM
25 and raw NTLMSSP already. This is important when enabling
26 extended security and mounting to Windows 2003 Servers
28 f) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than
29 using FindNotify or equivalent. - (started)
31 g) A few byte range testcases fail due to POSIX vs. Windows/CIFS
32 style byte range lock differences
36 j) finish writepages support (multi-page write behind for improved
37 performance) and syncpage
39 k) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the
40 extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases.
42 l) finish support for IPv6. This is mostly complete but
43 needs a simple conversion of ipv6 to sin6_addr from the
44 address in string representation.
46 m) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the
47 oplock breaks coming from windows srv. Piggyback identical file
48 opens on top of each other by incrementing reference count rather
49 than resending (helps reduce server resource utilization and avoid
50 spurious oplock breaks).
52 o) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read
53 at a time when 8 pages or more are requested. In conjuntion
54 add support for async_cifs_readpages.
56 p) Add support for storing symlink and fifo info to Windows servers
57 in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize.
59 q) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows
60 will autorefresh (started)
62 r) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of
63 the CIFS statistics (started)
65 q) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
66 (requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX
68 r) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
70 s) Allow remapping of last remaining character (\) to +0xF000 which
71 (this character is valid for POSIX but not for Windows)
73 t) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per
74 mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping
75 exists. This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to
76 allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server
77 and client. Add new protocol request to the CIFS protocol
78 standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a
81 KNOWN BUGS (updated April 29, 2005)
82 ====================================
83 See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for
86 1) existing symbolic links (Windows reparse points) are recognized but
87 can not be created remotely. They are implemented for Samba and those that
88 support the CIFS Unix extensions, although earlier versions of Samba
89 overly restrict the pathnames.
90 2) follow_link and readdir code does not follow dfs junctions
92 3) create of new files to FAT partitions on Windows servers can
93 succeed but still return access denied (appears to be Windows
94 server not cifs client problem) and has not been reproduced recently.
95 NTFS partitions do not have this problem.
96 4) debug connectathon lock test case 10 which fails against
97 Samba (may be unmappable due to POSIX to Windows lock model
98 differences but worth investigating). Also debug Samba to
99 see why lock test case 7 takes longer to complete to Samba
104 1) check out max path names and max path name components against various server
105 types. Try nested symlinks (8 deep). Return max path name in stat -f information
107 2) Modify file portion of ltp so it can run against a mounted network
108 share and run it against cifs vfs.
110 3) Additional performance testing and optimization using iozone and similar -
111 there are some easy changes that can be done to parallelize sequential writes,
112 and when signing is disabled to request larger read sizes (larger than
113 negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers.
115 4) More exhaustively test against less common servers. More testing
116 against Windows 9x, Windows ME servers.