On Tue, 2013-12-10 at 06:52 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: > On 12/09/2013 08:33 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 15:45 -0800, Yale Zhang wrote: > >> Debian developers, > >> > >> I would like to use SMB2 since it's faster on higher latency links, > >> but it's not enabled in kernel 3.11 and later. > >> > >> > >> It no longer seems to be experimental, so can you enable it? > > > > That is only because CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL has been deprecated. The help > > text for CONFIG_SMB2 still says: > > > > Unless you are a developer or tester, say N. > > > > So I don't think it is a good idea to enable in Debian yet (sadly). > > > > Ben. > > > > Enabling SMB2 should be safe enough. You have to actually specify it as > a mount option, e.g., "vers=2.0", in order to exercise the code under > CONFIG_CIFS_SMB2. The average user won't just stumble on this by accident. I see; in that case I will enable it. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings One of the nice things about standards is that there are so many of them.
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