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From: mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.smb,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: (Samba) Can it replace NFS?
Date: 5 Sep 1995 13:42:25 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Some time ago (5 Sep 1995 09:40:44 GMT) honorable Simon Oosthoek, 
residing at s.oosthoek@student.utwente.nl wrote:
|In article <42h2eh$op0@news.bu.edu>, mi@csb.bu.edu says...

|>
|>So far there is no UNIX that will understand 'mount -t samba', AFAIK...
|>The odor of NFS, may well depend on the implemetation, BTW...

|A module exists for Linux to mount samba shares (ksmbfs) and it is 
|incorporated in the development kernels 1.3.* (I think 1.3.6 and higher)
|you still need a separate mount/umount (smbmount/smbumount), but other 
|than that it could eventually replace NFS, IMHO.

Khm-m... Wonder what FreeBSD masters will say... BTW, seems like under
FreeBSD you can now get an NFS speed of almost raw disk access.

	-mi
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