SMB/CIFS protocol and SMB/CIFS file system implementation for FreeBSD, version 1.4. This is native SMB/CIFS filesystem (smbfs for short) for FreeBSD. It is a complete, kernel side implementation of SMB requester and filesystem. Supportted platforms: FreeBSD 4.X FreeBSD-current kernel module is included in the base source tree. I'm would be very grateful for any feedback, bug reports etc. Supported SMB servers: Samba Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT4.0 (SPs 4, 5, 6) IBM LanManager NetApp An updated versions of this package can be retrieved from ftp server: ftp://ftp.butya.kz/pub/smbfs/smbfs.tar.gz Perfomance ========== There is some perfomance benchmarks over 10Mbit network: Win95 machine as server: IOZONE: auto-test mode MB reclen bytes/sec written bytes/sec read 1 512 339791 323416 1 1024 481067 431568 1 2048 648394 588674 1 4096 630130 583555 1 8192 671088 618514 Samba 2.0.6 as server: IOZONE: auto-test mode MB reclen bytes/sec written bytes/sec read 1 512 409200 437191 1 1024 545600 596523 1 2048 729444 798915 1 4096 871543 919299 1 8192 900790 1024562 Author: Boris Popov