1*4882a593Smuzhiyun======= 2*4882a593SmuzhiyunAuthors 3*4882a593Smuzhiyun======= 4*4882a593Smuzhiyun 5*4882a593SmuzhiyunOriginal Author 6*4882a593Smuzhiyun--------------- 7*4882a593Smuzhiyun 8*4882a593SmuzhiyunSteve French (sfrench@samba.org) 9*4882a593Smuzhiyun 10*4882a593SmuzhiyunThe author wishes to express his appreciation and thanks to: 11*4882a593SmuzhiyunAndrew Tridgell (Samba team) for his early suggestions about smb/cifs VFS 12*4882a593Smuzhiyunimprovements. Thanks to IBM for allowing me time and test resources to pursue 13*4882a593Smuzhiyunthis project, to Jim McDonough from IBM (and the Samba Team) for his help, to 14*4882a593Smuzhiyunthe IBM Linux JFS team for explaining many esoteric Linux filesystem features. 15*4882a593SmuzhiyunJeremy Allison of the Samba team has done invaluable work in adding the server 16*4882a593Smuzhiyunside of the original CIFS Unix extensions and reviewing and implementing 17*4882a593Smuzhiyunportions of the newer CIFS POSIX extensions into the Samba 3 file server. Thank 18*4882a593SmuzhiyunDave Boutcher of IBM Rochester (author of the OS/400 smb/cifs filesystem client) 19*4882a593Smuzhiyunfor proving years ago that very good smb/cifs clients could be done on Unix-like 20*4882a593Smuzhiyunoperating systems. Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Urban Widmark, John 21*4882a593SmuzhiyunNewbigin and others for their work on the Linux smbfs module. Thanks to 22*4882a593Smuzhiyunthe other members of the Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Technical 23*4882a593SmuzhiyunWorkgroup for their work specifying this highly complex protocol and finally 24*4882a593Smuzhiyunthanks to the Samba team for their technical advice and encouragement. 25*4882a593Smuzhiyun 26*4882a593SmuzhiyunPatch Contributors 27*4882a593Smuzhiyun------------------ 28*4882a593Smuzhiyun 29*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Zwane Mwaikambo 30*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Andi Kleen 31*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Amrut Joshi 32*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Shobhit Dayal 33*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Sergey Vlasov 34*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Richard Hughes 35*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Yury Umanets 36*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Mark Hamzy (for some of the early cifs IPv6 work) 37*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Domen Puncer 38*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Jesper Juhl (in particular for lots of whitespace/formatting cleanup) 39*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Vince Negri and Dave Stahl (for finding an important caching bug) 40*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Adrian Bunk (kcalloc cleanups) 41*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Miklos Szeredi 42*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Kazeon team for various fixes especially for 2.4 version. 43*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Asser Ferno (Change Notify support) 44*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Shaggy (Dave Kleikamp) for innumerable small fs suggestions and some good cleanup 45*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Gunter Kukkukk (testing and suggestions for support of old servers) 46*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Igor Mammedov (DFS support) 47*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Jeff Layton (many, many fixes, as well as great work on the cifs Kerberos code) 48*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Scott Lovenberg 49*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Pavel Shilovsky (for great work adding SMB2 support, and various SMB3 features) 50*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Aurelien Aptel (for DFS SMB3 work and some key bug fixes) 51*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Ronnie Sahlberg (for SMB3 xattr work, bug fixes, and lots of great work on compounding) 52*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Shirish Pargaonkar (for many ACL patches over the years) 53*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Sachin Prabhu (many bug fixes, including for reconnect, copy offload and security) 54*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Paulo Alcantara 55*4882a593Smuzhiyun- Long Li (some great work on RDMA, SMB Direct) 56*4882a593Smuzhiyun 57*4882a593Smuzhiyun 58*4882a593SmuzhiyunTest case and Bug Report contributors 59*4882a593Smuzhiyun------------------------------------- 60*4882a593SmuzhiyunThanks to those in the community who have submitted detailed bug reports 61*4882a593Smuzhiyunand debug of problems they have found: Jochen Dolze, David Blaine, 62*4882a593SmuzhiyunRene Scharfe, Martin Josefsson, Alexander Wild, Anthony Liguori, 63*4882a593SmuzhiyunLars Muller, Urban Widmark, Massimiliano Ferrero, Howard Owen, 64*4882a593SmuzhiyunOlaf Kirch, Kieron Briggs, Nick Millington and others. Also special 65*4882a593Smuzhiyunmention to the Stanford Checker (SWAT) which pointed out many minor 66*4882a593Smuzhiyunbugs in error paths. Valuable suggestions also have come from Al Viro 67*4882a593Smuzhiyunand Dave Miller. 68*4882a593Smuzhiyun 69*4882a593SmuzhiyunAnd thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE and Citrix and RedHat testers for finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs. 70