Linux 6.0 SMB3 Client Code Brings Multi-Channel Performance Improvement

[jacob]

How to convert Linux into a Windows slave, paid by Microsoft.

Do you mean it would be better if Linux had substandard SMB support?

[jacob]

It's not bad per se as an isolated case, but Microsoft only promotes their own trchnologies instead adopting proper open srandards (no OpenGL, no Vulkan, no OpenDocument, etc.). OpenXML was a trap too, for example.

In this case there wasn't a "proper open standard" (NFS is a joke) and this helps ensuring that SMB is not a Microsoft lock-in.

[marlock]

In this case there wasn't a "proper open standard" (NFS is a joke) and this helps ensuring that SMB is not a Microsoft lock-in.

yes, exactly!

I know some people have luck with NFS but GUI integration is basically non-existant, setup guides are all over the place saying very disparate things, and for my machines the nfs server just doesn't work no matter which guide I try, without any clue why.

I'd love nothing more than using an open standard (with smaller overhead) and proper support for user permissions like over a local storage... but the client is not available anywhere outside linux (not even android, humpf!) and even on linux it's such a PITA...

Having something like SMB/CIFS (a de facto standard) work as server and client over an opensource implementation is turning it into a mostly open standard (lacking only an open governance to ensure no future proprietary surprises)... if you see its open implementation as a problem you're probably seeing the still picture but not the movie, where it was less free and became more free (that particular tech and the network sharing niche as a whole)

[ehansin]

Samba is the project, it includes many techs (SMB, LDAP, ...) as always wikipedia gives a good overview and the samba wiki goes into more details.

Looking at the PR, this is for the in Kernel client/FS code (CIFS).

I suppose these could help...

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cifs/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software)


That said, still confused about what the kernel provides sans Samba, but I think if I do some reading I can start to figure some things out. Thanks!

[david-nk]

That said, still confused about what the kernel provides sans Samba, but I think if I do some reading I can start to figure some things out. Thanks!

The kernel provides an SMB client implementation allowing you to mount shares, no Samba required.
Samba provides SMB server functionality.

[timofonic]

yes, exactly!

I know some people have luck with NFS but GUI integration is basically non-existant, setup guides are all over the place saying very disparate things, and for my machines the nfs server just doesn't work no matter which guide I try, without any clue why.

I'd love nothing more than using an open standard (with smaller overhead) and proper support for user permissions like over a local storage... but the client is not available anywhere outside linux (not even android, humpf!) and even on linux it's such a PITA...

Having something like SMB/CIFS (a de facto standard) work as server and client over an opensource implementation is turning it into a mostly open standard (lacking only an open governance to ensure no future proprietary surprises)... if you see its open implementation as a problem you're probably seeing the still picture but not the movie, where it was less free and became more free (that particular tech and the network sharing niche as a whole)

Why not doing a proper alternative then?

[david-nk]

Why not doing a proper alternative then?

Well, you should be able to answer your own question. Why aren't you working on a proper alternative?

[timofonic]

Well, you should be able to answer your own question. Why aren't you working on a proper alternative?

No funding. No enough experience in the field. It would require a large team to make it happen.

[jacob]

Well, you should be able to answer your own question. Why aren't you working on a proper alternative?

What would be the point in reinventing a wheel that no-one would use?