Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161268AbXECOnS (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:43:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1162028AbXECOnS (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:43:18 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34201 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161268AbXECOnR (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:43:17 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 15:43:15 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: simo Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Steve French , linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module Message-ID: <20070503144315.GA24129@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , simo , Steve French , linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <524f69650704301552j13cd46e5y53a233af753e0548@mail.gmail.com> <20070501090657.GA17949@infradead.org> <1178198489.28758.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20070503141742.GB20328@infradead.org> <1178203013.28758.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1178203013.28758.29.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1023 Lines: 19 On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:36:53AM -0400, simo wrote: > I guess DFS referrals can work cross protocol, so if you are redirected > from a longhorn server to a windoes 2000 or a samba server you want to > be able to follow the DFS referral and not return an error. > To do that you need to have either 1 module that support both protocols > or a way from one module to call the other. Just separating the 2 > without any glue will not work (or you will have to add some userspace > upcall hack to make it work). You can easily redirect from one filesystem to another through ->follow_link, and you can mount new filesystems instances from there. Can we please stop the bullshitting now? And can you please get a realname before playing smart ass on filesystem developers lists? - 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/