| Linus Torvalds | 1da177e | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | Original Author |
| 2 | =============== |
| 3 | Steve French (sfrench@samba.org) |
| 4 | |
| 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. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Patch Contributors |
| 19 | ------------------ |
| 20 | Zwane Mwaikambo |
| 21 | Andi Kleen |
| 22 | Amrut Joshi |
| 23 | Shobhit Dayal |
| 24 | Sergey Vlasov |
| 25 | Richard Hughes |
| 26 | Yury Umanets |
| 27 | Mark Hamzy |
| 28 | Domen Puncer |
| 29 | Jesper Juhl |
| 30 | |
| 31 | Test case and Bug Report contributors |
| 32 | ------------------------------------- |
| 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 |
| 39 | bugs in error paths. |
| 40 | |
| 41 | And thanks to the IBM LTC and Power test teams and SuSE testers for |
| 42 | finding multiple bugs during excellent stress test runs. |