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| author | Christof Schmitt <cs@samba.org> | 2021-09-14 10:32:58 -0700 |
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| committer | Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> | 2021-09-15 00:04:47 +0000 |
| commit | d40f57321a12c28840cdd2efd3e0e8f21855b6d4 (patch) | |
| tree | 272a7396d8c5732209020d9db254209eb7b6da31 /WHATSNEW.txt | |
| parent | 079e706e1711cae82db913fa46fa9efe7afafc97 (diff) | |
| download | samba-d40f57321a12c28840cdd2efd3e0e8f21855b6d4.tar.gz | |
WHATSNEW: Document changes for "kernel share modes"
Signed-off-by: Christof Schmitt <cs@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Autobuild-User(master): Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Wed Sep 15 00:04:47 UTC 2021 on sn-devel-184
Diffstat (limited to 'WHATSNEW.txt')
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt index fe9eff8ba59..b585e2e20a1 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW.txt +++ b/WHATSNEW.txt @@ -33,12 +33,23 @@ installed in /var/lib/samba/private/certs. REMOVED FEATURES ================ +No longer using Linux mandatory locks for sharemodes +==================================================== + +smbd mapped sharemodes to Linux mandatory locks. This code in the Linux kernel +was broken for a long time, and is planned to be removed with Linux 5.15. This +Samba release removes the usage of mandatory locks for sharemodes and the +"kernel share modes" config parameter is changed to default to "no". The Samba +VFS interface is kept, so that file-system specific VFS modules can still use +private calls for enforcing sharemodes. + smb.conf changes ================ Parameter Name Description Default -------------- ----------- ------- + kernel share modes New default No KNOWN ISSUES |