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

[Robert Howard]

My self and a number of G1G1 users, currently use boa for  
transferring files.  It is a light weight web server.
I see no need for SMB/CIFS .  Now WebDAV sounds interesting.

Now to clean up the copy to Journal and copy from Journal scripts....


On Aug 25, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Joel Rees <joel.rees at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> I'm debating with myself whether to send this, because I don't want
>> to make people mad, with the result of closed minds, but sometimes
>> you have to be politically incorrect:
>
> I think this will be resolved by whomever implements this, with no
> need for flamefests :-)
>
> In that sense, it is very simple - as a programmer, if I am going to
> spend significant time working on a feature like this I want it to
>
> 1 - work for the deployments - this is the most important thing!
> 2 - work for G1G1 users too - they are the donors and enthusiasts!
> 3 - work for the developers - otherwise it won't get attention and  
> bugfixes
> 4 - work in as many places as possible
> 5 - not cause security trouble
> 6 - enable sharing across the internet if possible
>
> CIFS is only good on #2, and fails at all the other ones. It is a good
> solution for a very narrow set of scenarios.
>
> These are some of the key concerns in front of a dev planning to
> implement some form of server-based filesharing. That's why I am
> suggesting WebDAV - which is superior to this, and trivial to
> configure on many platforms.
>
> Code will settle this. Anyone trying to do a CIFS implementation will
> soon realise that it just does not fit the usage scenario (not meant
> for WiFi, userland usage, etc) and WebDAV does.
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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