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

[Rainer Orth]

Gordon Ross writes:

> > >     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?
> 
> The existing convention appears to be that "fs type" programs
> such as mount, umount, go in /usr/lib/fs/$FSTYPE whereas
> other FS support programs to in /usr/lib/$FSTYPE, such as
> /usr/lib/nfs/{mountd,nfsmapid} etc.
> 
> I just followed that convention.

As Jim already commented, there seems to be confusion here what the actual
convention is.  Apart from /usr/lib/fs/ufs, another case in point (which
doesn't only contain filesystem-specific plugins, but also e.g. cachefsd),
is /usr/lib/fs/cachefs.

I suppose it makes more sense to collect everything in one place
(/usr/lib/fs/<filesystem>) than to randomly scatter them over two different
ones.

Comments?

	Rainer

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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University