A packet or streams layer for GENSEC/SASL?

[David Collier-Brown]

Correction!

David Collier-Brown wrote:
>    The same applies to low-level filesystem I/O as well,
              ^- Insert "logic" here please, as I'm
                 talking about what should be true, not
                 what Samba 3 does, below.
> with Samba being free to use quite large buffers
> and the lower levels optionally shrinking them.
> 
>    This is almost the exact opposite of how Samba
> works now: unless you specify a large write size,
> Samba uses small sized buffers whose size
> correspond to what is desirable on the network,
> and we hope that read(1) will coalesce them.
> 
>    Fortunately this works on Linux, but it's
> a giant performance pain on BSD-derived
> filesystems (like mine!)


--dave
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