Messages in this thread | | | From | (Oliver Neukum) | Subject | Re: [question] implentation of smb-browsing: kernel space or user space? | Date | Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:30:28 +0100 |
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> Therefore I had the idea, to implement this smb-browsing feature in kernel > space. It will be a kind of network neighbourhood-filesytem with all > computers as top level directories below the mount point.
What could a kernel space browser do that a demon could not do ?
> The first step might be to glue the autofs with smbfs and add a kernel smb > browser as a proof of concept.
Do you say that autofs cannot be used to mount smbfs shares ?
> My question is: Do you think, that this kind of filesystem is sensible, or > do you think that smb-stuff has to be in user space. (for example using the > filesystem in userspace approach, shown some weeks ago)?
Smbfs itself must be in kernel. That doesn't imply that the browser has to be in kernel.
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