My understanding is that ksmbd is a kernel-space SMB server "developed as a lightweight, high-performance alternative" to the traditional (user-space) Samba server...
Q1: Who is using ksmbd in production?
Q2: Why?
Q1: Who is using ksmbd in production?
Q2: Why?
2. Samba performance sucks (by comparison) which is why people still regularly deploy Windows for file sharing in 2025.
Anybody know if this supports native Windows-style ACLs for file permissions? That is the last remaining reason to still run Solaris but I think it relies on ZFS to do so.
Samba's reliance on Unix UID/GID and the syncing as part of its security model is still stuck in the 1970s unfortunately.
The caveat is the in-kernel SMB server has been the source of at least one holy-shit-this-is-bad zero-day remote root hole in Windows (not sure about Solaris) so there are tradeoffs.
Sigh. This is why we can't have nice things
Like yeah having smb in kernel is faster but honestly it's not fundamentally faster. But it seems the will to make samba better isn't there
I researched quite extensively prior to landing on SMB, but it really seems like there isn't a better way of doing this. The environment was mixed windows/linux, but if there was a better pure linux solution I would've pushed our office staff to switch to Ubuntu.