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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    Supportted platforms:
10	FreeBSD 4.X
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12	FreeBSD-current		kernel module is included in the base source
13				tree.
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15    I'm would be very grateful for any feedback, bug reports etc.
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17    Supported SMB servers:
18	Samba
19	Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT4.0 (SPs 4, 5, 6)
20	IBM LanManager
21	NetApp
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23    An updated versions of this package can be retrieved from ftp server:
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25    ftp://ftp.butya.kz/pub/smbfs/smbfs.tar.gz
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27    Perfomance
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30    There is some perfomance benchmarks over 10Mbit network:
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32    Win95 machine as server:
33IOZONE: auto-test mode
34	MB      reclen  bytes/sec written   bytes/sec read
35	1       512     339791              323416
36	1       1024    481067              431568
37	1       2048    648394              588674
38	1       4096    630130              583555
39	1       8192    671088              618514
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41    Samba 2.0.6 as server:
42IOZONE: auto-test mode
43	MB      reclen  bytes/sec written   bytes/sec read
44	1       512     409200              437191
45	1       1024    545600              596523
46	1       2048    729444              798915
47	1       4096    871543              919299
48	1       8192    900790              1024562
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50Author: Boris Popov <bp@freebsd.org>
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