| 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. |
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| 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. |
