CIFS and SMBFS

[Dave Hawkes (gmane)]

It would appear that SMBFS has been replaced in favour of CIFS. However 
the problem for is that I get many errors using CIFS which do not occur 
with old kernels that still have SMBFS support.

The most common error is:

CIFS VFS: Error 0xfffffffb or (-5 decimal) on cifs_get_inode_info in lookup

This error occurs on all 2.6 kernels up to and including 2.6.3-2.1.242 
that I have tried.

Is it not possible to also keep support for SMBFS in the kernel as it 
would appear that it is currently more stable, likely due to its maturity?

Thanks
Dave Hawkes