SMB2 is here ..
July 13, 2009
Sriram has done another fantastic job. The Likewise SMB/CIFS server has full wire protocol support for SMB2. This is a huge accomplishment. What this means is that a Likewise SMB/CIFS server can speak native SMB2 to a Windows 7 or Windows Vista client machine. The reason why we got here so fast was Sriram chose to re-architect the SMB server driver to provide a framework where new protocols or new transports could be efficiently integrated into the driver.
Jerry has almost completed the lock manager package. Byte range locks are fully operational as are share mode locks. Jerry has also gotten exclusive locks and batch locks to work in the stack.
All of Jerry’s and Sriram’s work hinges on a fully asynchronous lwio kernel. Danilo had completed the asynchronous i/o semantics a while back.
We’re now working aggressively on our new registry subsystem. I need to write a lot more about this – its rationale and why we believe the time for a registry is now.
Finally, our gss-ntlm subsystem is going through a complete re-write.
SNIA 2009 is coming up fast and we want to make sure that we can show people something really special.
