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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/todo.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/todo.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..25f11576e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/todo.rst @@ -0,0 +1,133 @@ +==== +TODO +==== + +Version 2.14 December 21, 2018 + +A Partial List of Missing Features +================================== + +Contributions are welcome. There are plenty of opportunities +for visible, important contributions to this module. Here +is a partial list of the known problems and missing features: + +a) SMB3 (and SMB3.1.1) missing optional features: + + - multichannel (started), integration with RDMA + - directory leases (improved metadata caching), started (root dir only) + - T10 copy offload ie "ODX" (copy chunk, and "Duplicate Extents" ioctl + currently the only two server side copy mechanisms supported) + +b) improved sparse file support (fiemap and SEEK_HOLE are implemented + but additional features would be supportable by the protocol). + +c) Directory entry caching relies on a 1 second timer, rather than + using Directory Leases, currently only the root file handle is cached longer + +d) quota support (needs minor kernel change since quota calls + to make it to network filesystems or deviceless filesystems) + +e) Additional use cases can be optimized to use "compounding" (e.g. + open/query/close and open/setinfo/close) to reduce the number of + roundtrips to the server and improve performance. Various cases + (stat, statfs, create, unlink, mkdir) already have been improved by + using compounding but more can be done. In addition we could + significantly reduce redundant opens by using deferred close (with + handle caching leases) and better using reference counters on file + handles. + +f) Finish inotify support so kde and gnome file list windows + will autorefresh (partially complete by Asser). Needs minor kernel + vfs change to support removing D_NOTIFY on a file. + +g) Add GUI tool to configure /proc/fs/cifs settings and for display of + the CIFS statistics (started) + +h) implement support for security and trusted categories of xattrs + (requires minor protocol extension) to enable better support for SELINUX + +i) Add support for tree connect contexts (see MS-SMB2) a new SMB3.1.1 protocol + feature (may be especially useful for virtualization). + +j) Create UID mapping facility so server UIDs can be mapped on a per + mount or a per server basis to client UIDs or nobody if no mapping + exists. Also better integration with winbind for resolving SID owners + +k) Add tools to take advantage of more smb3 specific ioctls and features + (passthrough ioctl/fsctl is now implemented in cifs.ko to allow + sending various SMB3 fsctls and query info and set info calls + directly from user space) Add tools to make setting various non-POSIX + metadata attributes easier from tools (e.g. extending what was done + in smb-info tool). + +l) encrypted file support + +m) improved stats gathering tools (perhaps integration with nfsometer?) + to extend and make easier to use what is currently in /proc/fs/cifs/Stats + +n) Add support for claims based ACLs ("DAC") + +o) mount helper GUI (to simplify the various configuration options on mount) + +p) Add support for witness protocol (perhaps ioctl to cifs.ko from user space + tool listening on witness protocol RPC) to allow for notification of share + move, server failover, and server adapter changes. And also improve other + failover scenarios, e.g. when client knows multiple DFS entries point to + different servers, and the server we are connected to has gone down. + +q) Allow mount.cifs to be more verbose in reporting errors with dialect + or unsupported feature errors. + +r) updating cifs documentation, and user guide. + +s) Addressing bugs found by running a broader set of xfstests in standard + file system xfstest suite. + +t) split cifs and smb3 support into separate modules so legacy (and less + secure) CIFS dialect can be disabled in environments that don't need it + and simplify the code. + +v) POSIX Extensions for SMB3.1.1 (started, create and mkdir support added + so far). + +w) Add support for additional strong encryption types, and additional spnego + authentication mechanisms (see MS-SMB2) + +x) Finish support for SMB3.1.1 compression + +Known Bugs +========== + +See https://bugzilla.samba.org - search on product "CifsVFS" for +current bug list. Also check http://bugzilla.kernel.org (Product = File System, Component = CIFS) + +1) existing symbolic links (Windows reparse points) are recognized but + can not be created remotely. They are implemented for Samba and those that + support the CIFS Unix extensions, although earlier versions of Samba + overly restrict the pathnames. +2) follow_link and readdir code does not follow dfs junctions + but recognizes them + +Misc testing to do +================== +1) check out max path names and max path name components against various server + types. Try nested symlinks (8 deep). Return max path name in stat -f information + +2) Improve xfstest's cifs/smb3 enablement and adapt xfstests where needed to test + cifs/smb3 better + +3) Additional performance testing and optimization using iozone and similar - + there are some easy changes that can be done to parallelize sequential writes, + and when signing is disabled to request larger read sizes (larger than + negotiated size) and send larger write sizes to modern servers. + +4) More exhaustively test against less common servers + +5) Continue to extend the smb3 "buildbot" which does automated xfstesting + against Windows, Samba and Azure currently - to add additional tests and + to allow the buildbot to execute the tests faster. The URL for the + buildbot is: http://smb3-test-rhel-75.southcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com + +6) Address various coverity warnings (most are not bugs per-se, but + the more warnings are addressed, the easier it is to spot real + problems that static analyzers will point out in the future). |