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Tridgell Taking Samba Beyond POSIX

Posted by michael on from the thunderdome dept.

dW writes "The Australian hacker has been working on pushing Samba beyond the POSIX world and figuring out what work needs to be done to get Samba to support new filesystems such as XFS, ext3, and Storage Tank. The answer is nothing less than a complete rewrite of Samba's smbd code, which has become his latest pet project. Here's an interview with Andrew Tridgell on his latest Samba rewrite."

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  1. Make smore sense... by forau · · Score: 5, Funny

    When I first read the headline, I thought that it said "Trogdor Taking Samba Beyond POSIX." I thought "Why would the burninator bother with this? Doesn't he have villages to burninate?" Yeah. I'll go ahead and read the article now...

    1. Re:Make smore sense... by Spunk · · Score: 2, Funny

      Burninating the Windows shares
      Burninating the network

      The Samba comes in the niiiiiight!

  2. How about by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    I don't use SMB shares you insensitive clod!

    What's that you say? this isn't a poll? d'oh!

  3. Really? Which OSs don't support AFS? by Moderation+abuser · · Score: 2, Funny

    Cos AIX, Darwin, Linux, Digital Unix, HP-UX, Irix, MacOS X 10, Solaris, *BSD and Windows all have free client software...

    So, by "majority of OSes"... Did you mean DOS?

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  4. I wonder about the samba team... by thogard · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think the Samba team is well. At least not in the head anyways.

    These guys look at some of the uglyest packets in the world. And they keep doing it. And they keep coming back for more. Ever hear Tridge talk about whats going on inside the SMB packets? Hes not too hard on MS in the large public forums but see what happens when you hand him a VB or 5 before a talk... then he will give it to you without the sugar coating... Were talking odd sized data structures that may or may not be little endian. Most of the time the structures are hiding inside other structures and the inner and outer structures will have different bitness and different world alignments. Nest a few levels for even more pain. And then repeat. This is what these guys do for FUN! This is why I'm concerned about them.

    Now they want to tackle other stuff as well? Maybe they could just throw in Novell's stuff for grins. Once they have done that, they will win the all time award for being the most saito masicistic coders ever. No one will ever be able to beat them. Ever. Its not even worth attempting to compete with them.