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+Original Author
+===============
+Steve French (sfrench@samba.org)
+
+The author wishes to express his appreciation and thanks to:
+Andrew Tridgell (Samba team) for his early suggestions about smb/cifs VFS
+improvements. Thanks to IBM for allowing me time and test resources to pursue
+this project, to Jim McDonough from IBM (and the Samba Team) for his help, to
+the IBM Linux JFS team for explaining many esoteric Linux filesystem features.
+Jeremy Allison of the Samba team has done invaluable work in adding the server
+side of the original CIFS Unix extensions and reviewing and implementing
+portions of the newer CIFS POSIX extensions into the Samba 3 file server. Thank
+Dave Boutcher of IBM Rochester (author of the OS/400 smb/cifs filesystem client)
+for proving years ago that very good smb/cifs clients could be done on Unix-like
+operating systems.  Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Urban Widmark, John 
+Newbigin and others for their work on the Linux smbfs module.  Thanks to
+the other members of the Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Technical
+Workgroup for their work specifying this highly complex protocol and finally
+thanks to the Samba team for their technical advice and encouragement.
+
+Patch Contributors
+------------------
+Zwane Mwaikambo
+Andi Kleen
+Amrut Joshi
+Shobhit Dayal
+Sergey Vlasov
+Richard Hughes
+Yury Umanets
+Mark Hamzy (for some of the early cifs IPv6 work)
+Domen Puncer
+Jesper Juhl (in particular for lots of whitespace/formatting cleanup)
+Vince Negri and Dave Stahl (for finding an important caching bug)
+Adrian Bunk (kcalloc cleanups)
+Miklos Szeredi 
+Kazeon team for various fixes especially for 2.4 version.
+Asser Ferno (Change Notify support)
+Shaggy (Dave Kleikamp) for innumerable small fs suggestions and some good cleanup
+Gunter Kukkukk (testing and suggestions for support of old servers)
+Igor Mammedov (DFS support)
+Jeff Layton (many, many fixes, as well as great work on the cifs Kerberos code)
+Scott Lovenberg
+Pavel Shilovsky (for great work adding SMB2 support, and various SMB3 features)
+Aurelien Aptel (for DFS SMB3 work and some key bug fixes)
+Ronnie Sahlberg (for SMB3 xattr work, bug fixes, and lots of great work on compounding)
+Shirish Pargaonkar (for many ACL patches over the years)
+Sachin Prabhu (many bug fixes, including for reconnect, copy offload and security)
+Paulo Alcantara
+Long Li (some great work on RDMA, SMB Direct)
+
+
+Test case and Bug Report contributors
+-------------------------------------
+Thanks to those in the community who have submitted detailed bug reports
+and debug of problems they have found:  Jochen Dolze, David Blaine,
+Rene Scharfe, Martin Josefsson, Alexander Wild, Anthony Liguori,
+Lars Muller, Urban Widmark, Massimiliano Ferrero, Howard Owen,
+Olaf Kirch, Kieron Briggs, Nick Millington and others. Also special
+mention to the Stanford Checker (SWAT) which pointed out many minor
+bugs in error paths.  Valuable suggestions also have come from Al Viro
+and Dave Miller.
+
+And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE and Citrix and RedHat testers for finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs.