[Pkg-samba-maint] Bug#1081506: plocate: /etc/updatedb.conf PRUNEFS should include smb3 and not smbfs

[Daniel Lewart]

Debian Samba Maintainers,

On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 2:23 AM Steinar H. Gunderson <sesse at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 12:20:30AM -0500, Daniel Lewart wrote:
> > 1) smbfs was dropped in 2012:
> >         https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620847
>
> That's just the userspace wrappers, right, not the kernel filesystem?
>
> > 2) According to mount.cifs(8), smb3 is the successor to cifs
>
> Just to be clear, that's on the protocol level; I believe they both use the
> cifs filesystem internally in the kernel. But you're right in that
> “mount -t smb3” will say smb3 in mtab.
>
> > It should also include smb3, but not smbfs.
>
> Is there any good reason to not just leave smbfs in?
>
> /* Steinar */
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Could y'all be so kind as to answer the question of whether the smbfs filesystem
exists in Debian anymore?

Thank you!
Daniel Lewart
Urbana, Illinois