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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. Regards Oliver - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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