Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:20:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@nic.follonett.no> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feasibility of porting Linux filesystem code? Message-ID: <199704170920.LAA02704@nic.follonett.no> 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.
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