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3f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn    SMB/CIFS protocol and SMB/CIFS file system implementation
4f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn		for FreeBSD, version 1.4.
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6f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn    This is native SMB/CIFS filesystem (smbfs for short) for FreeBSD.
7f1b9d127SSheldon HearnIt is a complete, kernel side implementation of SMB requester and filesystem.
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9df3342d6SSheldon Hearn    Supported platform		Comment
10df3342d6SSheldon Hearn	FreeBSD 4.X		Port
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12df3342d6SSheldon Hearn	FreeBSD 4.5		Everything available in the base system.
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14df3342d6SSheldon Hearn	FreeBSD-current		Everything available in the base system.
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16df3342d6SSheldon Hearn	Darwin			maintained in the Darwin's  tree.
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18*290bb03cSChristian Brueffer    I would be very grateful for any feedback, bug reports etc.
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20f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn    Supported SMB servers:
21f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	Samba
22f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT4.0 (SPs 4, 5, 6)
23f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	IBM LanManager
24f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	NetApp
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26*290bb03cSChristian Brueffer    An updated version of this package can be retrieved from ftp server:
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28f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn    ftp://ftp.butya.kz/pub/smbfs/smbfs.tar.gz
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30*290bb03cSChristian Brueffer    Performance
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33*290bb03cSChristian Brueffer    These are some performance benchmarks over a 10Mbit network:
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35f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn    Win95 machine as server:
36f1b9d127SSheldon HearnIOZONE: auto-test mode
37f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	MB      reclen  bytes/sec written   bytes/sec read
38f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	1       512     339791              323416
39f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	1       1024    481067              431568
40f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	1       2048    648394              588674
41f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	1       4096    630130              583555
42f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	1       8192    671088              618514
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44f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn    Samba 2.0.6 as server:
45f1b9d127SSheldon HearnIOZONE: auto-test mode
46f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	MB      reclen  bytes/sec written   bytes/sec read
47f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	1       512     409200              437191
48f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	1       1024    545600              596523
49f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	1       2048    729444              798915
50f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	1       4096    871543              919299
51f1b9d127SSheldon Hearn	1       8192    900790              1024562
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53f1b9d127SSheldon HearnAuthor: Boris Popov <bp@freebsd.org>
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