3 Steve French (sfrench@samba.org)
5 The author wishes to express his appreciation and thanks to:
6 Andrew Tridgell (Samba team) for his early suggestions about smb/cifs VFS
7 improvements. Thanks to IBM for allowing me the time and test resources to pursue
8 this project. Jim McDonough from IBM (and the Samba Team) for his help.
9 The IBM Linux JFS team for explaining many esoteric Linux filesystem features.
10 Dave Boutcher of IBM Rochester (author of the OS/400 smb/cifs filesystem client)
11 for proving years ago that a very good smb/cifs client could be done on a Unix like
12 operating system. Volker Lendecke, Andrew Tridgell, Urban Widmark, John Newbigin
13 and others for their work on the Linux smbfs module over the years. Thanks to
14 the other members of the Storage Network Industry Association CIFS Technical
15 Workgroup for their work specifying this highly complex protocol and finally
16 thanks to the Samba team for their technical advice and encouragement.
31 Test case and Bug Report contributors
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33 Thanks to those in the community who have submitted detailed bug reports
34 and debug of problems they have found: Jochen Dolze, David Blaine,
35 Rene Scharfe, Martin Josefsson, Alexander Wild, Anthony Liguori,
36 Lars Muller, Urban Widmark, Massimiliano Ferrero, Howard Owen,
37 Olaf Kirch, Kieron Briggs, Nick Millington and others. Also special
38 mention to the Stanford Checker (SWAT) which pointed out many minor
41 And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE testers for
42 finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs.