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Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code?
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Ian Kallen wrote:
> 
> I'd like to use the smbfs and smbmount stuff that the Linux using Samba
> afficiandoes have worked out on FreeBSD (2.2.1) -- is anybody working on
> this?  There's also Linux support for SGI's efs that I'd be very happy to
> use under FreeBSD were it available -- anybody working on _that_?  If I
> had the skills to port stuff like that I'd work on it but it's outta my
> scope...
> 

Volker, who wrote the smbfs just left here..
I think there is a chance that we may get a port out of him, but
not right away.. he didn't seem to be against the idea.