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Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code?
To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:20:46 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <33554C44.41C67EA6@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Apr 16, 97 03:01:40 pm"
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> Ian Kallen wrote:
> > 
> > I'd like to use the smbfs and smbmount stuff that the Linux using Samba
> > afficiandoes have worked out on FreeBSD (2.2.1) -- is anybody working on
> > this?  There's also Linux support for SGI's efs that I'd be very happy to
> > use under FreeBSD were it available -- anybody working on _that_?  If I
> > had the skills to port stuff like that I'd work on it but it's outta my
> > scope...
> > 
> 
> Volker, who wrote the smbfs just left here..
> I think there is a chance that we may get a port out of him, but
> not right away.. he didn't seem to be against the idea.

I started attempting to port that code - it seemed like a major nightmare.
Everything seemed to be written to be as Linux-specific as possible.
When generic interfaces was available, the Linux-specific ones has been chosen
for no technical reason.  As an example, all constants available there was
taken from <linux/*>, even when the parameters the code get are also available
in e.g. <sys/types.h>

For the time being, I'd suggest looking at smbmount (the NFS faker) - it
should run on FreeBSD fairly directly.