Tridgell Taking Samba Beyond POSIX

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."

Comments

Re:I think he means in the other direction

[stratjakt]

Well that doesnt make any sense.

SMB is chatty and slow compared to existing unix solutions like NFS. That sounds double plus redundant to me.

Of course he can speed up his implementation of SMB, because as it is it's an order of magnitude slower than what Win2k does. (As in it takes 10x longer for me to copy the same file to a samba box than it does to a windows box, no matter how much I poke and prod and test different socket options, etc)

Samba only exists for compatibilities sake (to talk to Windows, Apples, Novell, DOS, etc).