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From: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Linux Killer App (ksmbfs)
Date: 9 Oct 1995 22:34:50 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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larryr@saturn.sdsu.edu (Larry Riedel) wrote:
] > You may want to get together with others who feel as you do and
] > make a project of it.
]
] I personally don't mind using Linux. I just think something
] like ksmbfs would be a worthwhile addition to FreeBSD. I am
] not concerned about who would develop the feature.
I think something like ksmbfs is worthwhile only for single user
desktop machines, where a single client credential universally
applied to all FS services consumers on the platform is an
acceptable thing.
For the most part, I think both Linux and FreeBSD do *not* fall
into this definition.
Therefore, I think that a ksmbfs would have to be significantly
rearchitected along the lines of the NUC (NetWare UNIX Client)
commercial server-client-as-file-system for it to be generally
useful.
Even on Linux.
You are welcome to do that work, after which I will help you
implement. Probably a full architecting and implementation
would fall under my non-disclosure as a former Novell employee
who has had his hands in the NUC code. I also advised on the
Samba list when this was first discussed) (which means that I
know what I am talking about when I condemn KSMBFS as a toy).
You are also welcome to ignore my advice and implement the limited
and therefore generally useless Linux KSMBFS code under BSD; it
is significantly easier to add an FS to BSD in any case.
Attempting to set this up as a "selling point" for Linux vs. BSD
is not, however, welcome. Take it to the advocacy groups, please.
Regards,
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.