Pseudo file system with Samba

[Satish Chandra Kilaru]

Hi

I have some data (organized as folders/files) generated on the fly on many
different unix variants. I need to share this data with windows clients. I
do not want to write it to a disk and share it as this data changes
dynamically based on who is accessing it.

I can not write a file system driver because this should work on OSs like
Linux, Solaris, HP, AIX, MAC etc... it is tedious to write FS drivers for
each and every platform. FUSE is not an option either as FUSE is not
available on some of the platforms that I need to support.

Can this problem be solved by writing a module that Samba can use?

This is what I am thinking. If a share is listed in smb.conf with some
special property, Samba understands that it is a FS that is different from
other FSs. This FS is handled by a library that I provide. Samba takes care
of SMB protocol and this library takes care of file system calls.

Is such a thing available in Samba? If not is it a good idea to develop it
(I am volunteering to do it)?

Satish
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