The smbfs(5) filesystem supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol, and
I propose removing it for FreeBSD 14. I know the CHERI folks have been
using it but they plan to migrate away from it. It was broken for
months before they fixed it, so I suspect nobody is using it on
contemporary releases.
I have review D32707 (https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32707) open to add
this deprecation notice to the man page:
The smbfs filesystem driver supports only the obsolete SMBv1 protocol.
smbfs and userspace counterparts smbutil(1) and mount_smbfs(8) are not
present in FreeBSD 14 and above. Users are advised to evaluate the
sysutils/fusefs-smbnetfs port instead.
A similar notice would be added to the smbutil and mount_smbfs man
pages, and manu_at_ suggested having the userland utilities emit a
warning when they are used.
I am interested in comments, objections, or reports that anyone is in
fact using smbfs.
Received on Thu Oct 28 2021 - 14:44:56 UTC