On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 08:50:04AM +0100, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On 3/7/2010 at 16:55, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: The "right" thing to do is to pick out the pieces of the novfs code that are not in ncpfs and add it to the existing ncpfs codebase. However, in the end, this is a dead end as users are using the cifs interface on their netware servers more and more these days and have migrated away from the novel file system api due to some restrictions that it had.
That's a lovely theory but I wonder in how many businesses you went to get to this statement?
I went to the people who support this product to get this statement :)
I've seen quite some Netware networks recently and in none was CIFS used as the primary access method (where it was activated it was there for some scanners that can't do novell file systems, but that can do cifs).
I'm not disagreeing that there are a lot of Netware networks out there, or that people are not using this code at all. Just that this is not the future of this filesystem and this is why no one has taken the time to get the novfs code merged upstream. Hope this helps, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org