Followup to: <E16RtOX-0007Ao-00@mrvdom00.kundenserver.de>
By author: Christian =?iso-8859-1?q?Borntr=E4ger?=
<linux-kernel@borntraeger.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> My question is: Do you think, that this kind of filesystem is sensible, or do
> you think that smb-stuff has to be in user space. (for example using the
> filesystem in userspace approach, shown some weeks ago)?
>
It REALLY should be in user space. Putting this kind of crap in the
kernel is insane. Note also that *browsing* (network 'hood) is
different from *mounting* -- even on Windows it is very common that
there are computers you can't see in your browse windows that you can
access by name.
Consider DNS -- it *used* to be possible to enumerate DNS (these days,
most servers will deny access to you if you try), but it has been a
long, long time since it was ever practical. However, you can do
blind resolution quite trivially.
-hpa
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