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authorSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>2014-08-22 04:40:46 -0500
committerSteve French <smfrench@gmail.com>2014-08-25 17:01:05 -0500
commitca5d13fc33cc56f7405004574d18172ddbdea2ef (patch)
tree668951ecc012ab679a6bf2a107cd93ca6bd7ae20 /fs/cifs
parent1bbe4997b13de903c421c1cc78440e544b5f9064 (diff)
Clarify Kconfig help text for CIFS and SMB2/SMB3
Clarify descriptions of SMB2 and SMB3 support in Kconfig Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@samba.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/cifs')
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/Kconfig35
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/Kconfig b/fs/cifs/Kconfig
index 603f18a65c12..a2172f3f69e3 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/cifs/Kconfig
@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ config CIFS
support for OS/2 and Windows ME and similar servers is provided as
well.
+ The module also provides optional support for the followon
+ protocols for CIFS including SMB3, which enables
+ useful performance and security features (see the description
+ of CONFIG_CIFS_SMB2).
+
The cifs module provides an advanced network file system
client for mounting to CIFS compliant servers. It includes
support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user
@@ -121,7 +126,8 @@ config CIFS_ACL
depends on CIFS_XATTR && KEYS
help
Allows fetching CIFS/NTFS ACL from the server. The DACL blob
- is handed over to the application/caller.
+ is handed over to the application/caller. See the man
+ page for getcifsacl for more information.
config CIFS_DEBUG
bool "Enable CIFS debugging routines"
@@ -162,7 +168,7 @@ config CIFS_NFSD_EXPORT
Allows NFS server to export a CIFS mounted share (nfsd over cifs)
config CIFS_SMB2
- bool "SMB2 network file system support"
+ bool "SMB2 and SMB3 network file system support"
depends on CIFS && INET
select NLS
select KEYS
@@ -170,16 +176,21 @@ config CIFS_SMB2
select DNS_RESOLVER
help
- This enables experimental support for the SMB2 (Server Message Block
- version 2) protocol. The SMB2 protocol is the successor to the
- popular CIFS and SMB network file sharing protocols. SMB2 is the
- native file sharing mechanism for recent versions of Windows
- operating systems (since Vista). SMB2 enablement will eventually
- allow users better performance, security and features, than would be
- possible with cifs. Note that smb2 mount options also are simpler
- (compared to cifs) due to protocol improvements.
-
- Unless you are a developer or tester, say N.
+ This enables support for the Server Message Block version 2
+ family of protocols, including SMB3. SMB3 support is
+ enabled on mount by specifying "vers=3.0" in the mount
+ options. These protocols are the successors to the popular
+ CIFS and SMB network file sharing protocols. SMB3 is the
+ native file sharing mechanism for the more recent
+ versions of Windows (Windows 8 and Windows 2012 and
+ later) and Samba server and many others support SMB3 well.
+ In general SMB3 enables better performance, security
+ and features, than would be possible with CIFS (Note that
+ when mounting to Samba, due to the CIFS POSIX extensions,
+ CIFS mounts can provide slightly better POSIX compatibility
+ than SMB3 mounts do though). Note that SMB2/SMB3 mount
+ options are also slightly simpler (compared to CIFS) due
+ to protocol improvements.
config CIFS_FSCACHE
bool "Provide CIFS client caching support"