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Date:      Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:17:01 +0700 (ALMST)
From:      Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
To:        Jonathon Doran <doranj@Colorado.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: samba fs
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906301805130.44896-100000@lion.butya.kz>
In-Reply-To: <199906292257.QAA13764@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>

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On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Jonathon Doran wrote:

> > Are there any plans to create a way to =
> > mount=20
> > windows samba nfs? like linux's sambafs. I have tried sharityd, but its =
> > not that=20
> > great.
> 
> The short answer:  I hope not
[skip]
> 
> I'm a bit troubled by the Linux philosophy of putting stuff in the kernel
> which should be left in user-land.  Sharity shows that this function can
> exist in user-land, and so preserve some sanity in the kernel.

	I'm unsure that client file system code should go in user-land.
This creates additional context switches, data copies etc. which certainly
doesn't increase perfomance and put an additional overhead on CPU.
> 
> Jon Doran
> 
> NB:  I was a bit amused as the discussion of placing Mozilla in the Linux
> kernel.   <waiting a bit for the audience to recover>  Yes, now instead of
> restarting the browser, you can reboot your box.

	:)))

--
Boris Popov
http://www.butya.kz/~bp/



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