What SMB filesystem does Apple OSX use?
Richard Sharpe
rsharpe at richardsharpe.com
Mon Oct 13 19:25:27 GMT 2003
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, David Wuertele wrote:
> On Linux we have a choice of smbfs or cifs. Do these same choices
> exist on darwin? If so, which does Apple use? If not, how did they
> get their filesystem, is it Apple homegrown, or is it based on some
> common ancestor with the Linux smbfs or cifs?
FreeBSD already has an smbfs written by A Popov, I think. I recall hearing
the CIFS guys at Apple mention that they had done work on smbfs.
Regards
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