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Date:      Wed, 5 Jun 2024 10:06:16 +0200
From:      Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
To:        John Hixson <jhixson@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca>, "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Deprecating smbfs(5) and removing it before FreeBSD 14
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On 05/06/2024 01:05, John Hixson wrote:
>>
>> Thank you for the message. I'm glad someone has the courage to take the
>> plunge. Smbfs is still very important to me. In a heterogeneous environment
>> it is still the most common way to share data between systems.
>> Are you planning the final version as a kernel module, or will the final
>> version be via FUSE? I have had bad experiences with FUSE in the past with
>> stability and performance.
> 
> The final version will be a kernel module. It  will also be BSD
> licensed. I am not an expert at the VFS layer so I want to get the stack
> ironed out in FUSE before moving it into kernel space.

This is really good news. I can't help with the code, but once you get 
something I can test, let me know. I'd be happy to help with testing.

Best regards
Miroslav Lachman




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