Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162085AbXECOxU (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:53:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1162087AbXECOxT (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:53:19 -0400 Received: from mail.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:34359 "EHLO lists.samba.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162085AbXECOxR (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 10:53:17 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module From: simo To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Steve French , linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070503144315.GA24129@infradead.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> <20070503144315.GA24129@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Samba Team Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 10:53:16 -0400 Message-Id: <1178203996.28758.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1344 Lines: 32 On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 15:43 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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? I guess you just had a bad day and are in a bad mood, I am have no interest in arguing with you if this is the tone of the discussion. Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer email: idra@samba.org http://samba.org - 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/