Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 21:33:18 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Deprecating smbfs(5) and removing it before FreeBSD 14 Message-ID: <bb8f105e-e885-3968-8152-a3c0d2468101@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2C2BoTLFs2vThz=ppXfnO3u_pOaATJC=8_cOyfr6Zg31w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPyFy2CJKxMQQKwD3N=MTe-P4KodN77e3YCEh4z0Ssf9sXWEcQ@mail.gmail.com> <a83d338e-4dee-25a4-3837-4b423ff536f7@grosbein.net> <CAPyFy2C2BoTLFs2vThz=ppXfnO3u_pOaATJC=8_cOyfr6Zg31w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 28/10/2021 18:25, Ed Maste wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2021 at 11:05, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote: >> >> Please do not remove what is not broken. > > That is exactly the problem though: it was broken. It was fixed only > because the CHERI folks found that it wasn't working and fixed it, and > they are not going to be using it much longer. If nobody else > regularly tests it in -CURRENT it will break again, and will end up > broken in a release. Can this problem be covered by some automated tests to catch it sooner - before release? > That said, since it does seem that several folks > are still currently using i I'll avoid trying to remove it in the near > future. > > A caveat for the man pages may instead be something like: > > The smbfs filesystem driver supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol. > smbfs is unmaintained and may not function correctly in FreeBSD 14 or > later. Users are advised to evaluate the sysutils/fusefs-smbnetfs port > instead. Kind regards Miroslav Lachmanhelp
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