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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1be3d21c286e..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ - This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 NAS protocol as well - as for older dialects such as the Common Internet File System (CIFS) - protocol which was the successor to the Server Message Block - (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early - PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now - called SMB2 and SMB3. Use of SMB3 (and later, including SMB3.1.1) - is strongly preferred over using older dialects like CIFS due to - security reaasons. All modern dialects, including the most recent, - SMB3.1.1 are supported by the CIFS VFS module. The SMB3 protocol - is implemented and supported by all major file servers - such as all modern versions of Windows (including Windows 2016 - Server), as well as by Samba (which provides excellent - CIFS/SMB2/SMB3 server support and tools for Linux and many other - operating systems). Apple systems also support SMB3 well, as - do most Network Attached Storage vendors, so this network - filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of systems. - It also supports mounting to the cloud (for example - Microsoft Azure), including the necessary security features. - - The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network - file system function for SMB3 compliant servers, including advanced - security features, excellent parallelized high performance i/o, better - POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, encryption, - high performance safe distributed caching (leases/oplocks), optional packet - signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization - improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support - the CIFS Unix extensions (and in the future SMB3 POSIX extensions), - the combination can provide a reasonable alternative to other network and - cluster file systems for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, - not just in Linux to Windows (or Linux to Mac) environments. - - This filesystem has a mount utility (mount.cifs) and various user space - tools (including smbinfo and setcifsacl) that can be obtained from - - https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git - or - git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git - - mount.cifs should be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers. - - For more information on the module see the project wiki page at - - https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS - and - https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils |