Re: [question] implentation of smb-browsing: kernel space or user space?

[Oliver Neukum]

> Therefore I had the idea, to implement this smb-browsing feature in kernel
> space. It will be a kind of network neighbourhood-filesytem with all
> computers as top level directories below the mount point.

What could a kernel space browser do that a demon could not do ?

> The first step might be to glue the autofs with smbfs and add a kernel smb
> browser as a proof of concept.

Do you say that autofs cannot be used to mount smbfs shares ?

> My question is: Do you think, that this kind of filesystem is sensible, or
> do you think that smb-stuff has to be in user space. (for example using the
> filesystem in userspace approach, shown some weeks ago)?

Smbfs itself must be in kernel. That doesn't imply that the browser has to
be in kernel.

	Regards
		Oliver