On Apr 2, 2005 5:32 AM, Andy Sy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andy Sy wrote: > > > Microsoft's CIFS (what they are evolving SMB towards) is > > about providng similar functionality (enabling filesystem > > mounts across the Internet). > > Just to clarify... Not mounts per se (as that concept is not > really present in NT) but rather the idea of having remote > filesystems work like local ones.
Plan9 and GNU/Hurd deal with that situation by unifying their namespaces. The mechanisms these operating systems use ensure that the local as well as remote filesystems can be manipulated transparently. I'm not sure for the other Unixen, but the FUSE LKM does this for Linux. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.q-linux.com (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
