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Date:      Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:30:01 +0200 (MESZ)
From:      "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
To:        gpalmer@freebsd.org (Gary Palmer)
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Breaking ffs - speed enhancement?
Message-ID:  <199606120930.AA231331802@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>
In-Reply-To: <22695.834431886@palmer.demon.co.uk> from "Gary Palmer" at Jun 10, 96 07:38:06 pm

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In his e-mail Gary Palmer wrote:
> 
> Portals have worked to a greater or lesser extent since (at least)
> 2.0.5-RELEASE, probably also (to a lesser extent) in
> 2.0-RELEASE. Nothing has changed in the portals system for a while now
> as I haven't had the time of late (although I should try to get back
> to it sometime, or help someone else who has the time)
> 
> Gary

I don't know if I have understood the docs correctly, but it woild seem
that portalfs passes only the opened fd's to the client.  I don't know 
whether it supports stat(2) and friends needed for directory lookups.

If yes, great.  If not, ...


Because, portalfs is an ideal place to put the SMB filesystem in.  That
way smb-portald can take care of security problems: it knows what a uid
does its client have, and can log him in the net.  That way not everyone
gets to be logged into the net (which would be the case if smb-fs were
mounted any other way.)

What do you think?

/Marino




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