From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: simo <idra@samba.org>
Cc: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>,
Gerald Carter <coffeedude.jerry@gmail.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-cifs-client] Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module
Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 10:55:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070505095513.GA9935@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1178300593.28758.85.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 05:43:13PM +0000, simo wrote:
> > Actually I disagree. I think Christoph is correct. These
> > are two independent protocols and should be in two different
> > modules.
>
> They are independent the same way NFS v4 is independent from NFS v3 and
> v2. Independent but related, and most importantly, one is the fallback
> of the other.
Just FYI: although nfs2/3 and nfs4 are in the same kernel module they
actually are different file_system_types, and there is no automatic
fallback in the kernel. Given how little is actually shared between
nfs v2/3 and 4 it might have been a better idea to make it a totally
separate module.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-05 17:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-30 22:52 SMB2 file system - should it be a distinct module Steve French
2007-04-30 23:15 ` Chris Friesen
2007-05-01 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-03 13:21 ` [linux-cifs-client] " simo
2007-05-03 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-03 14:36 ` simo
2007-05-03 14:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-03 14:53 ` simo
2007-05-03 15:14 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-03 14:46 ` Gerald Carter
2007-05-03 14:56 ` simo
2007-05-03 15:35 ` Steve French
2007-05-03 15:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-04 17:12 ` Jeremy Allison
2007-05-04 17:43 ` simo
2007-05-05 9:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-04 18:35 ` Steve French
2007-05-01 9:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-05-01 19:26 ` [linux-cifs-client] Re: SMB2 file system - should it be a distinctmodule Wagner, Chris (GEAE, CBTS)
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