Correct. Of course the in-kernel CIFS stack will make it into the next "marketing release" (or whatever you want to call it, the thing that we think of as "Solaris 11.") It will be in the upcoming supported release of OpenSolaris. It will appear in other, supported distributions of OpenSolaris. But to put it into a Solaris 10 update would require a backport. The backport would entail changes to the VFS layer, which would break all other Solaris 10 file systems (including file systems not made by Sun, e.g. VxFS.) We're not going to do that.
(And yes, we have worked with Symantec to inform them of the changes they have to make to ensure that Veritas file systems work with the new VFS layer going forward.) -- Fred On Apr 18, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Tim wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Zlotnick Fred > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The in-kernel CIFS stack is not in Solaris 10 Update 5, > and will never appear in any Solaris 10 update, because > the kernel changes required are too invasive. You need > OpenSolaris. > > -- Fred > > > > > Fred, > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but just to clarify a bit for those > currently thinking "WHAT, NEVER IN MAINLINE!?" It will make it back > to mainline, but just not until the next solaris release (something > other than 10updateX), correct? -- Fred Zlotnick Senior Director, Solaris NAS Sun Microsystems, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] x81142/+1 650 352 9298 _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
