Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:35:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:35:04 -0400 Received: from fungus.teststation.com ([212.32.186.211]:64524 "EHLO fungus.teststation.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 2 Jun 2002 17:35:03 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 23:34:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Urban Widmark X-X-Sender: puw@cola.enlightnet.local To: Jean-Eric Cuendet cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SMB filesystem In-Reply-To: <3CFA875D.1050300@linkvest.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: > What do you think of implementing it that way? Comments? I would do the browsing as one part and the smb file access as another. That could allow a user to choose browsing implementation and file access implementation independently. On the network level they have "nothing" in common. For info on user-space filesystems you should spend some more time with google. There are people out there that have done that. The browsing can be done as an add-on to autofs (in some form) or as a userspace filesystem of its own. Currently autofs has a problem where it won't show the mountpoints of non-mounted directories, but I think you would run into that problem too. (short version of the problem: how do you prevent 'ls -l' from mounting all filesystems in a directory?) /Urban - 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/