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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."
...this will draw more people to Windows like winex does.
AS the Baghdad regime's officials fled, leaving behind terrorists and thugs as a rear guard, a trio of Saddam's dismayed defenders met in Moscow. French President Jacques Chirac, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Russian President Vladimir Putin - the axis of non-nein-nyet - discussed their powerlessness to save a favored dictator.
Ah, could we but overhear the curses those three hurled our way in their anger and their impotence.
But don't expect this trio to continue to sing in harmony. Resembling the Arab street in their determination to blame the United States for home-made ills, Chirac and Schroeder have no meaningful futures. Putin is another sort entirely, colder and more wary of empty gestures.
We will find ways to work with Moscow, although our mutual embrace will not be particularly warm. Putin is clever enough to know a losing hand when events have forced one upon him. He would like to restrain the United States, but he will never sacrifice his country's interests to those of France or Germany.
Gerhard Schroeder doesn't even matter. The only politician in the West who can make Bill Clinton seem a model of integrity and courage, the German chancellor leads a feckless nation of moral incompetents. We will mend our outward relationship with Berlin, but, on the level that matters, we've said auf Wiedersehen to Lili Marlene.
The farewell was overdue.
Our troops will leave Germany across the coming decade, as the German welfare state continues to fare less and less well. We will continue to trade goods, but will never again trade diplomatic intimacies. We will shake hands in public, but our private relationship has been permanently shaken.
This is a positive development, further liberating the United States from its thrall to continental Europe. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was exactly right to dismiss "Old Europe" as much diminished in relevance. When next the Germans and French tug at the sleeves of our policymakers, we are likely to brush them off - not without a measure of satisfaction.
The changed relationship with France matters most. Chirac, abetted by his sorcerer's apprentice, Foreign Minister Dominque de Villepin, has done his country's status nothing but harm through "l'affaire Iraq." Grotesquely overestimating France's influence and authority, Chirac garnered an empty round of applause with his self-adoring performance in support of a heinous dictator.
But the end effect was to bring Charles de Gaulle's inflated legacy to a sputtering end. Since the close of the Second World War, France had been permitted a louder voice than its stature merited. That era is over, murdered by Chirac. While calling President Bush a shoot-from-the-hip cowboy, Chirac shot his own country in the back.
France defied the United States, not wisely but too well. Chirac's foreign minister went out of his way to humiliate Colin Powell, the Bush Cabinet's most congenial member from a European perspective. But the astonishing thing is that Chirac genuinely seems to have believed that France could force a bit into Washington's mouth, then jerk the reins.
Well, France fell off the horse before the race got underway.
There will be handshakes with Paris, too, and hollow hugs and kisses. But France will never again be allowed even the illusion of a voice in shaping American policy. Chirac has thrown away the last rags of influence France could wear to the diplomatic ball.
Consider the situation in which France has been left by this very expensive outburst of Gallic vanity:
* France's lack of influence has been revealed to a humiliating degree.
* France has an aging population, a troubled economy and a hamstrung government paralyzed by a culture of entitlement. It is creaking toward irrelevance, while the United States surges ahead.
* France's shrunken military is closer in organization and capabilities to a World War II force than to America's armed forces; the French cannot even manage civil strife in
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).
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
I bought a used notebook computer the other day. It has Microsoft Windows 98 already installed. I didn't have to do a thing. Also this file system from Microsoft seems very stable, at least on my laptop. I would say that this is probably a very good file system. It is something to consider anyway.