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Clarify Kconfig help text for CIFS and SMB2/SMB3

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Clarify descriptions of SMB2 and SMB3 support in Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilovsky@samba.org>
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Steve French 2014-08-22 04:40:46 -05:00
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commit ca5d13fc33
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@ -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"