Debian Samba Maintainers, On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 2:23 AM Steinar H. Gunderson <se...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 12:20:30AM -0500, Daniel Lewart wrote: > > 1) smbfs was dropped in 2012: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620847 > > That's just the userspace wrappers, right, not the kernel filesystem? > > > 2) According to mount.cifs(8), smb3 is the successor to cifs > > Just to be clear, that's on the protocol level; I believe they both use the > cifs filesystem internally in the kernel. But you're right in that > “mount -t smb3” will say smb3 in mtab. > > > It should also include smb3, but not smbfs. > > Is there any good reason to not just leave smbfs in? > > /* Steinar */ > -- > Homepage: https://www.sesse.net/
Could y'all be so kind as to answer the question of whether the smbfs filesystem exists in Debian anymore? Thank you! Daniel Lewart Urbana, Illinois
