A question about ZFS built-in SMB
Quartz
quartz at sneakertech.com
Mon Jul 6 05:40:45 UTC 2015
> No, actually, it isn't. :) It works in a similar manner to sharenfs on
> FreeBSD. You still require a separate NFS server installed, and ask it
> does it copy the info to an exports file.
>
> Similar for sharesmb. You still require Samba being installed on Linux.
> All the property does is add the filesystem to a separate smb config
> file (or something like that; never actually used it on Linux).
>
> You still require the NFS and SMB packages installed for your distro.
> Same as you would for any other FS on Linux.
So I'm a little confused here.
On Linux, the property is active and usable but only creates the share,
meaning you still need the sever software to host it. On FreeBSD, the
property doesn't work at all, and you need the server software to do
everything......?
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