cachepc-linux

Fork of AMDESE/linux with modifications for CachePC side-channel attack
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      1============
      2Introduction
      3============
      4
      5  This is the client VFS module for the SMB3 NAS protocol as well
      6  as for older dialects such as the Common Internet File System (CIFS)
      7  protocol which was the successor to the Server Message Block
      8  (SMB) protocol, the native file sharing mechanism for most early
      9  PC operating systems. New and improved versions of CIFS are now
     10  called SMB2 and SMB3. Use of SMB3 (and later, including SMB3.1.1
     11  the most current dialect) is strongly preferred over using older
     12  dialects like CIFS due to security reasons. All modern dialects,
     13  including the most recent, SMB3.1.1, are supported by the CIFS VFS
     14  module. The SMB3 protocol is implemented and supported by all major
     15  file servers such as Windows (including Windows 2019 Server), as
     16  well as by Samba (which provides excellent CIFS/SMB2/SMB3 server
     17  support and tools for Linux and many other operating systems).
     18  Apple systems also support SMB3 well, as do most Network Attached
     19  Storage vendors, so this network filesystem client can mount to a
     20  wide variety of systems. It also supports mounting to the cloud
     21  (for example Microsoft Azure), including the necessary security
     22  features.
     23
     24  The intent of this module is to provide the most advanced network
     25  file system function for SMB3 compliant servers, including advanced
     26  security features, excellent parallelized high performance i/o, better
     27  POSIX compliance, secure per-user session establishment, encryption,
     28  high performance safe distributed caching (leases/oplocks), optional packet
     29  signing, large files, Unicode support and other internationalization
     30  improvements. Since both Samba server and this filesystem client support the
     31  CIFS Unix extensions, and the Linux client also suppors SMB3 POSIX extensions,
     32  the combination can provide a reasonable alternative to other network and
     33  cluster file systems for fileserving in some Linux to Linux environments,
     34  not just in Linux to Windows (or Linux to Mac) environments.
     35
     36  This filesystem has a mount utility (mount.cifs) and various user space
     37  tools (including smbinfo and setcifsacl) that can be obtained from
     38
     39      https://git.samba.org/?p=cifs-utils.git
     40
     41  or
     42
     43      git://git.samba.org/cifs-utils.git
     44
     45  mount.cifs should be installed in the directory with the other mount helpers.
     46
     47  For more information on the module see the project wiki page at
     48
     49      https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS
     50
     51  and
     52
     53      https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/LinuxCIFS_utils