[Samba] big file server

[jra at dp.samba.org]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 02:43:10PM +0100, Dragan Krnic wrote:
> 
> reiserfs complies fully with APIs for ACLs
> and EAs. Unfortunately, samba team would rather
> start writing non-POSIX samba from scratch than
> use the elegant transparency of reiserfs's streams.
> samba can and does use quite nicely reiserfs's ACLs though. If you don't know how to set the
> mount options to enable these features, tough,
> you're out of luck, pal. But if you ask nicely,
> I'm sure someone will let you know.

Errr. What brought this on ? What gave you the idea
that we're (a) writing a non-POSIX Samba or (b) rewriting
Samba from scratch ?

The problem is there is no POSIX API for streams. I'm
willing to abstract any reasonable API so we can have
streams on systems that support them. We will probably
add extended attributes now Linux supports them.

Jeremy.