better network filesystems

[thestar at fussycoder.id.au]

I sometimes wonder what kind of enchancements could  be had if there 
was a "samba client" for windows (ie, "samba brand" as opposed to 
"windows brand")

On 07/12/2004, at 2:22 PM, Steve French wrote:

> We need better network filesystems - so says newsforge ... ?!
>    http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/11/29/1528259&from=rss
> There is a grain of truth in his argument of course, and there are 
> lots of holes, and in some ways we have not reached what AIX and other 
> Unix had with AFS & DFS, even with Samba4 out and a somewhat improved 
> Linux cifs client (perhaps by 2.6.12) but it would not be -- that -- 
> hard to fix cifs/Samba or nfsv4 client/server with modest standards 
> and protocol enhancements to achieve their goals, and there are a lot 
> of advantages of Samba over the AFS server :)
>
> I wonder if many realize how many of these interesting fs features are 
> already possible in the smb/cifs protocols - now.
>
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