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Andrew Tridgell Talks About The Future Of Samba

Posted by timothy on Monday September 1, 2003 @03:43PM from the up-and-coming-musical-style dept.

Spud writes "Andrew Tridgell tells us what Samba is up to in a new interview." Specifically, he talks about several new features planned for Samba 4.0, and says that the release of 3.0 will happen "soon."

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Replacing NFS by kinema · 2003-09-01 15:56 · Score: 4, Interesting

Andrew obviously know his stuff when it comes to networked filesystems. In previous interviews he has let his disgust with CIFS/SMB be known. I wonder if he has any plans to design and write a new FS to compete with the defacto standard NFS.