From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 4:17:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lion.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [194.87.112.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4DA14BB8 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 04:17:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bp@butya.kz) Received: from bp (helo=localhost) by lion.butya.kz with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10zIMP-000BhH-00; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:17:01 +0700 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:17:01 +0700 (ALMST) From: Boris Popov To: Jonathon Doran Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: samba fs In-Reply-To: <199906292257.QAA13764@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Yes, now instead of > restarting the browser, you can reboot your box. :))) -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message