Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 16:25:13 +0100 (BST) From: Julian <julian@ivision.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Network File System Message-ID: <E0ypaNF-0006ig-00@stingray.ivision.co.uk>
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Hi, Once again I hope this is the right list, it appears to be based on where other posts of a similar nature have been posted. I had a strange idea the other day: There are, that I know of, no (free) decent Network Filesystems for Unix that work as a Unix filesystem. NFS looks like a Unix filesystem, but has problems too innumerable to mention. SMB is (despite the microsoft connections) is a reasonable network filesystem, but doesn't appear to support the unix aspects all that well, so no permissions, or owners. However, UMSDOS (sorry Terry Lambert, who always seems to be the one to reply to UMSDOS questions) copes with putting a Unix filesystem on top of a DOS filesystem (which SMB supports just fine). So, would it be possible to combine SMB and some SMB transparent extension such that permissions and ownership could be added? I don't think that long filenames would _need_ to be coped with explicitely, although if any incarnation prior to win95 had SMB it might be worthwhile... maybe. Am I missing something and this is a bad idea? Because it seems to have a lot of merit. You lose, in terms of speed, I suppose, but you gain in terms of being able to use a network filesystem that is well supported, but keeping the things that are needed by Unix. As an aside/addendum, does anyone know of a decent network filesystem that FreeBSD can support? This would be helpful specifically to me, since we run an almost exclusively freeBSD network here, although my idea might be nice if ever we get a nice fileserver like a Network Appliance box. Thanks, Julian Unix Admin, Internet Vision To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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