CIFS client updates for auto-reconnect [PSARC/2009/366 FastTrack timeout 06/24/2009]

[James Carlson]

Rainer Orth writes:
> Jordan Brown <jb25718 at sac.sfbay.sun.com> writes:
> 
> >     2.2 New or changed features
> > 
> >     This case proposes to add a new helper program to initiate
> >     reconnection when needed, installed as: /usr/lib/smbfs/smbiod
> >     (IOD is short for I/O Deamon, a name that comes from the
> >     original BSD/Darwin code used in the SMB client.)
> 
> Shouldn't the daemon reside in the existing /usr/lib/fs/smbfs directory
> instead of the new /usr/lib/smbfs?

Fair point.  When I'd originally reviewed this case, the new directory
made sense because the new daemon is not a *fs plugin module.  But
looking at the things that are already stored under (for example)
/usr/lib/fs/ufs, it's pretty clear that we haven't been sticking to
that model anyway.

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