1======= 2Authors 3======= 4 5Original Author 6--------------- 7 8Steve French (sfrench@samba.org) 9 10The author wishes to express his appreciation and thanks to: 11Andrew Tridgell (Samba team) for his early suggestions about smb/cifs VFS 12improvements. Thanks to IBM for allowing me time and test resources to pursue 13this project, to Jim McDonough from IBM (and the Samba Team) for his help, to 14the IBM Linux JFS team for explaining many esoteric Linux filesystem features. 15Jeremy Allison of the Samba team has done invaluable work in adding the server 16side of the original CIFS Unix extensions and reviewing and implementing 17portions of the newer CIFS POSIX extensions into the Samba 3 file server. Thank 18Dave Boutcher of IBM Rochester (author of the OS/400 smb/cifs filesystem client) 19for proving years ago that very good smb/cifs clients could be done on Unix-like 20operating systems. Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Urban Widmark, John 21Newbigin and others for their work on the Linux smbfs module. Thanks to 22the other members of the Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Technical 23Workgroup for their work specifying this highly complex protocol and finally 24thanks to the Samba team for their technical advice and encouragement. 25 26Patch Contributors 27------------------ 28 29- Zwane Mwaikambo 30- Andi Kleen 31- Amrut Joshi 32- Shobhit Dayal 33- Sergey Vlasov 34- Richard Hughes 35- Yury Umanets 36- Mark Hamzy (for some of the early cifs IPv6 work) 37- Domen Puncer 38- Jesper Juhl (in particular for lots of whitespace/formatting cleanup) 39- Vince Negri and Dave Stahl (for finding an important caching bug) 40- Adrian Bunk (kcalloc cleanups) 41- Miklos Szeredi 42- Kazeon team for various fixes especially for 2.4 version. 43- Asser Ferno (Change Notify support) 44- Shaggy (Dave Kleikamp) for innumerable small fs suggestions and some good cleanup 45- Gunter Kukkukk (testing and suggestions for support of old servers) 46- Igor Mammedov (DFS support) 47- Jeff Layton (many, many fixes, as well as great work on the cifs Kerberos code) 48- Scott Lovenberg 49- Pavel Shilovsky (for great work adding SMB2 support, and various SMB3 features) 50- Aurelien Aptel (for DFS SMB3 work and some key bug fixes) 51- Ronnie Sahlberg (for SMB3 xattr work, bug fixes, and lots of great work on compounding) 52- Shirish Pargaonkar (for many ACL patches over the years) 53- Sachin Prabhu (many bug fixes, including for reconnect, copy offload and security) 54- Paulo Alcantara 55- Long Li (some great work on RDMA, SMB Direct) 56 57 58Test case and Bug Report contributors 59------------------------------------- 60Thanks to those in the community who have submitted detailed bug reports 61and debug of problems they have found: Jochen Dolze, David Blaine, 62Rene Scharfe, Martin Josefsson, Alexander Wild, Anthony Liguori, 63Lars Muller, Urban Widmark, Massimiliano Ferrero, Howard Owen, 64Olaf Kirch, Kieron Briggs, Nick Millington and others. Also special 65mention to the Stanford Checker (SWAT) which pointed out many minor 66bugs in error paths. Valuable suggestions also have come from Al Viro 67and Dave Miller. 68 69And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE and Citrix and RedHat testers for finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs. 70