Enabling this option will allow more detailed statistics on SMB
request timing to be displayed in /proc/fs/cifs/DebugData and also
allow optional logging of slow responses to dmesg (depending on the
- value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI, see fs/cifs/README for more details).
- These additional statistics may have a minor effect on performance
- and memory utilization.
+ value of /proc/fs/cifs/cifsFYI). See Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst
+ for more details. These additional statistics may have a minor effect
+ on performance and memory utilization.
Unless you are a developer or are doing network performance analysis
or tuning, say N.
is enabled in the kernel build, LANMAN authentication will not be
used automatically. At runtime LANMAN mounts are disabled but
can be set to required (or optional) either in
- /proc/fs/cifs (see fs/cifs/README for more detail) or via an
- option on the mount command. This support is disabled by
- default in order to reduce the possibility of a downgrade
- attack.
+ /proc/fs/cifs (see Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst for
+ more detail) or via an option on the mount command. This support
+ is disabled by default in order to reduce the possibility of a
+ downgrade attack.
If unsure, say N.
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The Service Witness Protocol (SWN) is used to get notifications
from a highly available server of resource state changes. This
- feature enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts an
+ feature enables an upcall mechanism for CIFS which contacts a
userspace daemon to establish the DCE/RPC connection to retrieve
the cluster available interfaces and resource change notifications.
If unsure, say Y.