From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 13 08:04:29 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA12910 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 08:04:29 -0700 Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA12902 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 08:04:24 -0700 Received: (from owensc@localhost) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.11/8.7.2 rev 08/22/95) id LAA11475; Wed, 13 Sep 1995 11:03:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 11:03:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: hackers list FreeBSD cc: leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Subject: re: smfs Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk { From: "Marty Leisner" Subject: ksmfs in bsd/sunos kernels... Linux has ksmfs (a Samba file system...) I like it, its fairly clever... Anyone want to point me at something to look at (code preferred) on how to register a file system in a device driver (I assume it works almost the same was in SunOS and BSD?) } [my reply:] I've been using the regular samba package for a while now and like it very much. The only problem I see is that for each user connected, a new smbd process gets spawned with a size ranging from 500K to 1meg. This limits the number of users I can support. For this reason, I'm VERY interested in seeing/helping smfs get ported to FreeBSD. Are you pursuing this? Anyone else? Any way I can help? later, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------