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387866Ssheldonh    SMB/CIFS protocol and SMB/CIFS file system implementation
487866Ssheldonh		for FreeBSD, version 1.4.
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687866Ssheldonh    This is native SMB/CIFS filesystem (smbfs for short) for FreeBSD.
787866SsheldonhIt is a complete, kernel side implementation of SMB requester and filesystem.
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988282Ssheldonh    Supported platform		Comment
1088282Ssheldonh	FreeBSD 4.X		Port
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1288282Ssheldonh	FreeBSD 4.5		Everything available in the base system.
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1488282Ssheldonh	FreeBSD-current		Everything available in the base system.
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1688282Ssheldonh	Darwin			maintained in the Darwin's  tree.
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18292263Sbrueffer    I would be very grateful for any feedback, bug reports etc.
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2087866Ssheldonh    Supported SMB servers:
2187866Ssheldonh	Samba
2287866Ssheldonh	Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT4.0 (SPs 4, 5, 6)
2387866Ssheldonh	IBM LanManager
2487866Ssheldonh	NetApp
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26292263Sbrueffer    An updated version of this package can be retrieved from ftp server:
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2887866Ssheldonh    ftp://ftp.butya.kz/pub/smbfs/smbfs.tar.gz
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30292263Sbrueffer    Performance
3187866Ssheldonh    ==========
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33292263Sbrueffer    These are some performance benchmarks over a 10Mbit network:
3487866Ssheldonh    
3587866Ssheldonh    Win95 machine as server:
3687866SsheldonhIOZONE: auto-test mode
3787866Ssheldonh	MB      reclen  bytes/sec written   bytes/sec read
3887866Ssheldonh	1       512     339791              323416
3987866Ssheldonh	1       1024    481067              431568
4087866Ssheldonh	1       2048    648394              588674
4187866Ssheldonh	1       4096    630130              583555
4287866Ssheldonh	1       8192    671088              618514
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4487866Ssheldonh    Samba 2.0.6 as server:
4587866SsheldonhIOZONE: auto-test mode
4687866Ssheldonh	MB      reclen  bytes/sec written   bytes/sec read
4787866Ssheldonh	1       512     409200              437191
4887866Ssheldonh	1       1024    545600              596523
4987866Ssheldonh	1       2048    729444              798915
5087866Ssheldonh	1       4096    871543              919299
5187866Ssheldonh	1       8192    900790              1024562
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5387866SsheldonhAuthor: Boris Popov <bp@freebsd.org>
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