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3    SMB/CIFS protocol and SMB/CIFS file system implementation
4		for FreeBSD, version 1.4.
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6    This is native SMB/CIFS filesystem (smbfs for short) for FreeBSD.
7It is a complete, kernel side implementation of SMB requester and filesystem.
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9    Supported platform		Comment
10	FreeBSD 4.X		Port
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12	FreeBSD 4.5		Everything available in the base system.
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14	FreeBSD-current		Everything available in the base system.
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16	Darwin			maintained in the Darwin's  tree.
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18    I'm would be very grateful for any feedback, bug reports etc.
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20    Supported SMB servers:
21	Samba
22	Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT4.0 (SPs 4, 5, 6)
23	IBM LanManager
24	NetApp
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26    An updated versions of this package can be retrieved from ftp server:
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28    ftp://ftp.butya.kz/pub/smbfs/smbfs.tar.gz
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30    Perfomance
31    ==========
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33    There is some perfomance benchmarks over 10Mbit network:
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35    Win95 machine as server:
36IOZONE: auto-test mode
37	MB      reclen  bytes/sec written   bytes/sec read
38	1       512     339791              323416
39	1       1024    481067              431568
40	1       2048    648394              588674
41	1       4096    630130              583555
42	1       8192    671088              618514
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44    Samba 2.0.6 as server:
45IOZONE: auto-test mode
46	MB      reclen  bytes/sec written   bytes/sec read
47	1       512     409200              437191
48	1       1024    545600              596523
49	1       2048    729444              798915
50	1       4096    871543              919299
51	1       8192    900790              1024562
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53Author: Boris Popov <bp@freebsd.org>
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