From: Shachar Sharon <ssharon@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:44:48 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: WHATSNEW: update "New cephfs VFS module" section
X-Git-Tag: samba-4.21.0rc3~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=12084aa1bda8ac1c624d71fb6003e1bc5e669d5f;p=thirdparty%2Fsamba.git

WHATSNEW: update "New cephfs VFS module" section

BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15686

Signed-off-by: Shachar Sharon <ssharon@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index c42c8cdb142..86ee75d6c3c 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -238,6 +238,16 @@ nodes.  Check in smb.conf(5) the scripts winbind_ctdb_updatekeytab.sh and
 
 For detailed information check the smb.conf(5) and net(8) manpages.
 
+New cephfs VFS module
+---------------------
+Introduce new vfs-to-cephfs bridge which uses libcephfs low-level APIs (instead
+of path-based operations in the existing module). It allows users to pass
+explicit user-credentials per call (including supplementary groups), as well as
+faster operations using inode and file-handle caching on the Samba side.
+Configuration is identical to existing module, but using 'ceph_new' instead of
+'ceph' for the relevant smb.conf entries. This new module is expected to
+deprecate and replace the old one in next major release.
+
 
 REMOVED FEATURES
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