CIFS will be strategic in some settings, but not included in kernel

[Martin Langhoff]

2008/8/24 George Hunt <georgejhunt at gmail.com>:
> Two factors tip the balance between bloat and functionality in favor of
> including CIFS file system in the kernel.

First, for any network FS to actually be usable we would need to do
significant work on the UI. Including the smb client code is a trivial
step, doing a good quality UI is not.

And if we are going to include a network FS, there are other
alternatives for this. For the usage scenario you are mentioning
WebDAV is a much better fit, suited for ocassional file sharing, built
on the http stack, and can traverse networks over nat and proxies.

> Not including CIFS in the XO limits future and unforseen use unnecessarily.

Let's rewrite that to 'standardised network file systems'.

cheers,



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