Re: NCPFS overhaul.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 22:55:23 +0100 (BST)


> I'm like to overhaul the NCPFS code in the kernel so that a server (or volume)
> only needs to be mounted once, rather than being separately mounted by a suid
> mount program for each user.

Ok, but you stillneed one connection per user ?

> Users who aren't logged in to the Netware server are either refused access, or
> they get read-only access as the Netware user under which the filesystem was
> mounted, according to the mount flags.

Ah ok

> The down side of this, and the reason I'm asking for approval, is that the
> table of Netware IPX connections for each user would then have to be kept by
> the kernel. I don't like the idea of doing that, the only alternative I can see
> is to have the whole thing done in userspace as a local NFS mount, which is
> likely to be horribly slow.

Sounds a worthwhile experiment if no more

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