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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. First Krotus! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Krotus lives!

    1. Re:First Krotus! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Douche!

  2. 1st POST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    COOOL!

  3. Last day of class! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Last day of classes... turning in lab writeup and lab notebook. I 0wn.

  4. Re:Maybe this will kick MS.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What a completely and totally worthless comment.

    Why didn't you say FIRST POST, we know that's why you posted this pointless drivel.

  5. Re:ext3? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    asshat

  6. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    im teh uber 1337 d00d

    1. Re:first post by sogoodsofarsowhat · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No sir. You are none of these things!

      --
      . I love the sound of burning women and screaming rubber....