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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..2fac91ac96cf --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/cifs/cifs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ + This is the client VFS module for the Common Internet File System + (CIFS) protocol which is 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. These dialects are also supported by the + CIFS VFS module. CIFS is fully supported by network + file servers such as Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012 + as well by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS + server support for Linux and many other operating systems), so + this network filesystem client can mount to a wide variety of + servers. + + The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network + file system function for CIFS compliant servers, including better + POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, high + performance safe distributed caching (oplock), optional packet + signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization + improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support + the CIFS Unix extensions, the combination can provide a reasonable + alternative to NFSv4 for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments, + not just in Linux to Windows environments. + + This filesystem has an mount utility (mount.cifs) that can be obtained from + + https://ftp.samba.org/pub/linux-cifs/cifs-utils/ + + It must 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_utils |