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 inumerable small fs suggestions and some good cleanup 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 testers for finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs.