CIFS support is not the same as native distributed filesystem. Of course, we need to have CIFS support. Does native network filesystem assumes that OBOS will use it for paging ? Especially, when we talk about diskless clients ? And I'd like to get on GE list too :-) -- On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:27:52 Philippe Houdoin wrote: >In reply to Emmanuel Jacobs: > >> FYI :-) > >Thanks. > >Most of these features can be added afterward as userland servers, apps, add- >ons or a combinaison of that, I guess. > >But, what should be (or would be better if) placed into the stack itself? >LDAP support? I'm not LDAP fluent myself, in what's it's can be considered >similar to DHCP and/or DNS? > >For the native distributed file system, I agree, NFS4 is a good design. >But I'll bet that for most users CIFS support (aka WON aka friend's Windows >(or >Samba served) shared resources accessibility) is a must have, even before a >good full-featured network fs like NFS4. > >> If required, discussion can be continued on the GE mailinglist. > >Where can I search ge-talk archives? Or subscribe? > >-Philippe > > ____________________________________________________________ Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005