Re: + deprecate-smbfs-in-favour-of-cifs.patch added to -mm tree

From: John Kelly
Date: Fri May 12 2006 - 12:19:28 EST


On Fri, 12 May 2006 17:03:56 +0200 (MEST), Jan Engelhardt
<jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> > smbfs is a bit buggy and has no maintainer. Change it to shout at the user on
>> > the first five mount attempts - tell them to switch to CIFS.

>> > Come November we'll mark it BROKEN and see what happens.

>Sorry for falling in late but we can't do that.
>Win 98 (95 too?) shared can not be mounted with CIFS, it requires SMBFS.

W98? He's dead, Jim.


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