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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.bu.edu!mi From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: (Samba) Can it replace NFS? Date: 5 Sep 1995 13:42:25 GMT Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <42hk42$1nr@news.bu.edu> References: <42dmfj$tgo@tempest.symnet.net> <42h2eh$op0@news.bu.edu> <42h5us$efj@driene.student.utwente.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: csa.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.smb:1927 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:5614 Some time ago (5 Sep 1995 09:40:44 GMT) honorable Simon Oosthoek, residing at s.oosthoek@student.utwente.nl wrote: |In article <42h2eh$op0@news.bu.edu>, mi@csb.bu.edu says... |> |>So far there is no UNIX that will understand 'mount -t samba', AFAIK... |>The odor of NFS, may well depend on the implemetation, BTW... |A module exists for Linux to mount samba shares (ksmbfs) and it is |incorporated in the development kernels 1.3.* (I think 1.3.6 and higher) |you still need a separate mount/umount (smbmount/smbumount), but other |than that it could eventually replace NFS, IMHO. Khm-m... Wonder what FreeBSD masters will say... BTW, seems like under FreeBSD you can now get an NFS speed of almost raw disk access. -mi -- -- Why is that 2 o'clock all the time?! -- It is a manometer!!!