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Subject: Re: Kernel SMB performance
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> We are considering using an application that uses FreeBSD web servers in
> front of Windows file servers. How reliable/scalable is the kernel SMB
> module?
no idea. it worked many times when i wanted to fetch few files from 
windows. but i don't think anyone really cares very much about it being 
very well tested, bug free and high performance (i may be wrong here).

it's not the way unix is used in normal cases :) (reverse is true)