1Version 1.53 May 20, 2008
  2
  3A Partial List of Missing Features
  4==================================
  5
  6Contributions are welcome.  There are plenty of opportunities
  7for visible, important contributions to this module.  Here
  8is a partial list of the known problems and missing features:
  9
 10a) Support for SecurityDescriptors(Windows/CIFS ACLs) for chmod/chgrp/chown
 11so that these operations can be supported to Windows servers
 12
 13b) Mapping POSIX ACLs (and eventually NFSv4 ACLs) to CIFS
 14SecurityDescriptors
 15
 16c) Better pam/winbind integration (e.g. to handle uid mapping
 17better)
 18
 19d) Cleanup now unneeded SessSetup code in
 20fs/cifs/connect.c and add back in NTLMSSP code if any servers
 21need it
 22
 23e) fix NTLMv2 signing when two mounts with different users to same
 24server.
 25
 26f) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than 
 27using FindNotify or equivalent.  - (started)
 28
 29g) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls
 30to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems)
 31
 32h) investigate sync behavior (including syncpage) and check  
 33for proper behavior of intr/nointr
 34
 35i) improve support for very old servers (OS/2 and Win9x for example)
 36Including support for changing the time remotely (utimes command).
 37
 38j) hook lower into the sockets api (as NFS/SunRPC does) to avoid the
 39extra copy in/out of the socket buffers in some cases.
 40
 41k) Better optimize open (and pathbased setfilesize) to reduce the
 42oplock breaks coming from windows srv.  Piggyback identical file
 43opens on top of each other by incrementing reference count rather
 44than resending (helps reduce server resource utilization and avoid
 45spurious oplock breaks).
 46
 47l) Improve performance of readpages by sending more than one read
 48at a time when 8 pages or more are requested. In conjuntion
 49add support for async_cifs_readpages.
 50
 51m) Add support for storing symlink info to Windows servers 
 52in the Extended Attribute format their SFU clients would recognize.
 53
 54n) Finish fcntl D_NOTIFY support so kde and gnome file list windows
 55will autorefresh (partially complete by Asser). Needs minor kernel
 56vfs change to support removing D_NOTIFY on a file.   
 57
 58o) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of
 59the CIFS statistics (started)
 60
 61p) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs
 62(requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX
 63
 64q) Implement O_DIRECT flag on open (already supported on mount)
 65
 66r) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per
 67mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping
 68exists.  This is helpful when Unix extensions are negotiated to
 69allow better permission checking when UIDs differ on the server
 70and client.  Add new protocol request to the CIFS protocol 
 71standard for asking the server for the corresponding name of a
 72particular uid.
 73
 74s) Add support for CIFS Unix and also the newer POSIX extensions to the
 75server side for Samba 4.
 76
 77t) In support for OS/2 (LANMAN 1.2 and LANMAN2.1 based SMB servers) 
 78need to add ability to set time to server (utimes command)
 79
 80u) DOS attrs - returned as pseudo-xattr in Samba format (check VFAT and NTFS for this too)
 81
 82v) mount check for unmatched uids
 83
 84w) Add support for new vfs entry point for fallocate
 85
 86x) Fix Samba 3 server to handle Linux kernel aio so dbench with lots of 
 87processes can proceed better in parallel (on the server)
 88
 89y) Fix Samba 3 to handle reads/writes over 127K (and remove the cifs mount
 90restriction of wsize max being 127K) 
 91
 92KNOWN BUGS (updated April 24, 2007)
 93====================================
 94See http://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for
 95current bug list.
 96
 971) existing symbolic links (Windows reparse points) are recognized but
 98can not be created remotely. They are implemented for Samba and those that
 99support the CIFS Unix extensions, although earlier versions of Samba
100overly restrict the pathnames.
1012) follow_link and readdir code does not follow dfs junctions
102but recognizes them
1033) create of new files to FAT partitions on Windows servers can
104succeed but still return access denied (appears to be Windows 
105server not cifs client problem) and has not been reproduced recently.
106NTFS partitions do not have this problem.
1074) Unix/POSIX capabilities are reset after reconnection, and affect
108a few fields in the tree connection but we do do not know which
109superblocks to apply these changes to.  We should probably walk
110the list of superblocks to set these.  Also need to check the
111flags on the second mount to the same share, and see if we
112can do the same trick that NFS does to remount duplicate shares.
113
114Misc testing to do
115==================
1161) check out max path names and max path name components against various server
117types. Try nested symlinks (8 deep). Return max path name in stat -f information
118
1192) Modify file portion of ltp so it can run against a mounted network
120share and run it against cifs vfs in automated fashion.
121
1223) Additional performance testing and optimization using iozone and similar - 
123there are some easy changes that can be done to parallelize sequential writes,
124and when signing is disabled to request larger read sizes (larger than 
125negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers.
126
1274) More exhaustively test against less common servers.  More testing
128against Windows 9x, Windows ME servers.
129