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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/12/17 10:44 AM, Juliusz
Chroboczek wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">In a previous life I did some work on the optimization (by remote
proxying) of the SMB protocol used by Samba [...] Eventually we said
the heck with it, and sat Samba on top of a different protocol entirely,
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The audience are waiting with held breath for more details.
-- Juliusz
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<p><font size="-1">They aren't discussable in polite company. Way
too much cursing (;-))</font></p>
<p><font size="-1">Joking aside, that was definitely a case where we
said "don't go there". To the best of my knowledge, there are
two network optimization products that do SMB, so it's
physically possible. In our opinion, it was better to use the
SMB protocol locally and a different, cached, protocol over a
wide-area network. I actually prototyped it with Solaris NFS
and cachefs, and was pleasantly surprised it worked for a
single-writer case.<br>
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<p><font size="-1">--dave<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:davecb@spamcop.net">davecb@spamcop.net</a> | -- Mark Twain
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