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| author | Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de> | 2024-11-13 17:38:45 -0300 |
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| committer | Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de> | 2024-11-13 17:38:45 -0300 |
| commit | e61bd08d63453bee6c440c9bd350bbed5cac98f8 (patch) | |
| tree | 3dea6cb56d51cb6fa3b59527bda63772b07afa08 | |
| parent | 5edd54dc0927cbebe34f00af66c04f27ccb0983c (diff) | |
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smb: client: update Kconfig to remove old info
Signed-off-by: Enzo Matsumiya <ematsumiya@suse.de>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/smb/client/Kconfig | 26 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/Kconfig b/fs/smb/client/Kconfig index 3b453f4f82e6..3a35798b4406 100644 --- a/fs/smb/client/Kconfig +++ b/fs/smb/client/Kconfig @@ -22,34 +22,14 @@ config CIFS select OID_REGISTRY select NETFS_SUPPORT help - This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 family of network file - protocols (including the most recent, most secure dialect SMB3.1.1). - This module also includes support for earlier dialects such as - SMB2.1, SMB2 and even the old Common Internet File System (CIFS) - protocol. CIFS was the successor to the original network filesystem - protocol, Server Message Block (SMB ie SMB1), the native file sharing - mechanism for most early PC operating systems. - - The SMB3.1.1 protocol is supported by most modern operating systems - and NAS appliances (e.g. Samba, Windows 11, Windows Server 2022, - MacOS) and even in the cloud (e.g. Microsoft Azure) and also by the - Linux kernel server, ksmbd. Support for the older CIFS protocol was - included in Windows NT4, 2000 and XP (and later). Use of dialects - older than SMB2.1 is often discouraged on public networks. - This module also provides limited support for OS/2 and Windows ME - and similar very old servers. - This module provides an advanced network file system client for - mounting to SMB3 (and CIFS) compliant servers. It includes support - for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user session - establishment via Kerberos or NTLMv2, RDMA (smbdirect), advanced + mounting to SMB shares (from SMB 2.1 to 3.1.1) from compliant servers. + It includes support for DFS (hierarchical name space), secure per-user + session establishment via Kerberos or NTLMv2, RDMA (smbdirect), advanced security features, per-share encryption, packet-signing, snapshots, directory leases, safe distributed caching (leases), multichannel, Unicode and other internationalization improvements. - In general, the default dialects, SMB3 and later, enable better - performance, security and features, than would be possible with CIFS. - If you need to mount to Samba, Azure, ksmbd, Macs or Windows from this machine, say Y. |