Re: [question] implentation of smb-browsing: kernel space or user space?

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0201191313170.4434-100000@cola.teststation.com>
By author:    Urban Widmark <urban@teststation.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > 
> > I think that using the smb-file-system with a user-space mounter like 
> > mkautosmb has the problem of bad scalability in large networks, because it 
> > scans the whole network before you can access one share.
> 
> You don't need to scan on every access. You could run the scanner only if
> it was more than x minutes since the last scan. You could run the scanner
> independently of any attempts to access autofs.
> 

There is probably no need to even do that.  SMB contains a browser
list protocol, and Samba (nmbd) can participate in it.  You should be
able to read it out of there.

	-hpa
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