Removal or updating of "mount_smbfs" from FreeBSD operating system

[Andrey V. Elsukov]

On 27.11.2018 19:55, Yuri Pankov wrote:
>> There seems to be existing, working code in Nexenta, which is being
>> upstreamed to Illumos:
>>
>> https://www.illumos.org/issues/9735
>> https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/pull/37
>>
>> Their implementation descends from the one we have in base (and the one
>> from OSX, which also descends from FreeBSD), so it should be possible to
>> merge it.
> 
> Yes, we have it working and tested pretty well.  And that's exactly the
> reason I was asking if there's work in progress for smb2/3 client or not
> before even starting looking into porting the code.
> 
> The problem here is that the code has grown library dependencies which
> are CDDL-licensed, which aren't easy to break (if at all), so if ported,
> it will be covered by WITHOUT_CDDL; hopefully that's acceptable.  It's
> possible that Nexenta-authored code could be relicensed under BSDL (I'll
> have to ask, we already have a precedent with localedef), but sadly that
> doesn't cover everything.

Apple's implementation is looks like based on the same source as our
one. It looks like dual licensed APSL/BSDL but the size of the SMB/CIFS
code has significantly increased and porting doesn't look like an easy
task. But probably some code can be used...

https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/smb/

-- 
WBR, Andrey V. Elsukov

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