Messages in this thread | | | From | Christian Bornträger <> | Subject | [question] implentation of smb-browsing: kernel space or user space? | Date | Sat, 19 Jan 2002 12:08:57 +0100 |
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Hello,
I think that using the smb-file-system with a user-space mounter like mkautosmb has the problem of bad scalability in large networks, because it scans the whole network before you can access one share.
Other approaches like the integration in KDE have the problem, to be only useful for KDE-programs - that means shares connot be used by all programs. (e.g. xmms cannot play an mp3 residing on a smb-share under kde without using smbmount)
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.
The first step might be to glue the autofs with smbfs and add a kernel smb browser as a proof of concept.
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)?
If I get positive response I will try to implement this feature. As it will be my first work on implementing a file system it might take some time, but I think it is a good chance to learn a lot about the linux kernel.
greetings
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