Re: Pushing Samba functions into the kernel

2003-02-14 Thread Gerald (Jerry) Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Richard Sharpe wrote: On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, my feelings on Samba in the kernel are the following. 1). We need to be able to de-multiplex incoming SMB's at the kernel level to get over the

Re: Pushing Samba functions into the kernel

2003-02-13 Thread jra
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:41:35AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: Hi, I wanted to start a discussion on the following: Implementing some SMB functions in the Kernel, within a Samba base, or, Bending and twisting Samba out of shape. There are a number of reasons for wanting to

Re: Pushing Samba functions into the kernel

2003-02-13 Thread Christopher R. Hertel
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:41:35AM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote: : The return from the syscall would be a complete SMB, possibly with the NetBIOS header in a separate buffer, and maybe more. The entire NBT layer could be placed into the kernel. I would see, perhaps, LMB, DMB, and NBNS

Re: Pushing Samba functions into the kernel

2003-02-13 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, my feelings on Samba in the kernel are the following. 1). We need to be able to de-multiplex incoming SMB's at the kernel level to get over the W2K Terminal Server problem. OK, I am not familiar with this problem. Can you say more please.

Re: Pushing Samba functions into the kernel

2003-02-13 Thread Richard Sharpe
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Steven French wrote: jra wrote Ok, my feelings on Samba in the kernel are the following. 1). We need to be able to de-multiplex incoming SMB's at the kernel level to get over the W2K Terminal Server problem. 2). A utf8 case-insensitive filesystem (massive performance