cifs: minor documentation updates

Various minor cifs/smb3 documentation updates

Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <lsahlber@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/AUTHORS b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/AUTHORS
index 9f4f87e1624036349533adf9534bfd3c4b08535d..75865da2ce1475c27bea1050b3e80ff7160f6d6f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/AUTHORS
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/AUTHORS
@@ -42,9 +42,11 @@ Jeff Layton (many, many fixes, as well as great work on the cifs Kerberos code)
 Scott Lovenberg
 Pavel Shilovsky (for great work adding SMB2 support, and various SMB3 features)
 Aurelien Aptel (for DFS SMB3 work and some key bug fixes)
-Ronnie Sahlberg (for SMB3 xattr work and bug fixes)
+Ronnie Sahlberg (for SMB3 xattr work, bug fixes, and lots of great work on compounding)
 Shirish Pargaonkar (for many ACL patches over the years)
 Sachin Prabhu (many bug fixes, including for reconnect, copy offload and security)
+Paulo Alcantara
+Long Li (some great work on RDMA, SMB Direct)
 
 
 Test case and Bug Report contributors
@@ -58,5 +60,4 @@ mention to the Stanford Checker (SWAT) which pointed out many minor
 bugs in error paths.  Valuable suggestions also have come from Al Viro
 and Dave Miller.
 
-And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE testers for
-finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs.
+And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE and Citrix and RedHat testers for finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs.

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES
index bc0025cdd1c9c0d285c32e8d7656103868126ca8..455e1cc494a9f2e78ee1d45b89bfbe5ee55048eb 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+See https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFSKernel for
+more current information.
+
 Version 1.62
 ------------
 Add sockopt=TCP_NODELAY mount option. EA (xattr) routines hardened

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO
index c5adf149b57f7f8f6e2d0b104d5b74f6bc7f5f84..852499aed64b52bb321c0b9656b0b606a4710772 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/TODO
@@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ is a partial list of the known problems and missing features:
 
 a) SMB3 (and SMB3.02) missing optional features:
    - multichannel (started), integration with RDMA
-   - directory leases (improved metadata caching)
-   - T10 copy offload (copy chunk, and "Duplicate Extents" ioctl
+   - directory leases (improved metadata caching), started (root dir only)
+   - T10 copy offload ie "ODX" (copy chunk, and "Duplicate Extents" ioctl
      currently the only two server side copy mechanisms supported)
 
 b) improved sparse file support
 
 c) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than
-using Directory Leases
+using Directory Leases, currently only the root file handle is cached longer
 
 d) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls
 to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems)
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping
 exists. Also better integration with winbind for resolving SID owners
 
 k) Add tools to take advantage of more smb3 specific ioctls and features
+(passthrough ioctl/fsctl for sending various SMB3 fsctls to the server
+is in progress)
 
 l) encrypted file support
 
@@ -71,9 +73,8 @@ 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) Finish up SMB3.1.1 dialect support
-
-v) POSIX Extensions for SMB3.1.1
+v) POSIX Extensions for SMB3.1.1 (started, create and mkdir support added
+so far).
 
 KNOWN BUGS
 ====================================
@@ -92,8 +93,8 @@ 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) Improve xfstest's cifs enablement and adapt xfstests where needed to test
-cifs better
+2) Improve xfstest's cifs/smb3 enablement and adapt xfstests where needed to test
+cifs/smb3 better
 
 3) Additional performance testing and optimization using iozone and similar - 
 there are some easy changes that can be done to parallelize sequential writes,