Linux 6.6 SMB Client To Allow Adjusting Cache Time For Directory Contents

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.6 SMB Client To Allow Adjusting Cache Time For Directory Contents

With Linux 6.6 the KSMBD server is no longer "experimental" while this new kernel on the SMB3 client side also brings a notable addition: the new "dir_cache_timeout" option to control the cache time for directory contents...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6-SMB3-max_dir_cache

[piorunz]

SMB? I stopped using any Microsoft related network sharing protocols when I ditched the last Windows machine from my home. Now, everything is on Linux, and sharing is done by NFS and SyncThing.

[binarybanana]

FWIW, Windows has pretty good NFS(v3) client support. Requires some registry tweaking to set a uid/gid, but otherwise solid. Doesn't ship with the consumer versions, though.

[zexelon]

Why would anyone want SMB in the kernel??? That is just a disaster waiting to happen! I use SAMBA for pretty much all file sharing as I find it much nicer from a user perspective (Linux or Windows) than NFS, but I would never want such a massive high level protocol running in kernel space. This just sounds like a GSOC make work project... and something I will have to make sure is never active by default.

[TroyRoberts]

Why would anyone want SMB in the kernel??? That is just a disaster waiting to happen! I use SAMBA for pretty much all file sharing as I find it much nicer from a user perspective (Linux or Windows) than NFS, but I would never want such a massive high level protocol running in kernel space. This just sounds like a GSOC make work project... and something I will have to make sure is never active by default.

You are aware the client code for CIFS has been in the kernel, right?