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@@ -6,7 +6,16 @@ the server to treat subsequent connections, especially those that
are authenticated as guest, as reconnections, invalidating the earlier
user's smb session. This fix allows cifs to mount multiple times to the
same server with different userids without risking invalidating earlier
-established security contexts.
+established security contexts. fsync now sends SMB Flush operation
+to better ensure that we wait for server to write all of the data to
+server disk (not just write it over the network). Add new mount
+parameter to allow user to disable sending the (slow) SMB flush on
+fsync if desired (fsync still flushes all cached write data to the server).
+Posix file open support added (turned off after one attempt if server
+fails to support it properly, as with Samba server versions prior to 3.3.2)
+Fix "redzone overwritten" bug in cifs_put_tcon (CIFSTcon may allocate too
+little memory for the "nativeFileSystem" field returned by the server
+during mount).
Version 1.56
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