features in samba 3.alpha (VFS)

Michael H Buselli busellim at pprd.abbott.com
Tue Dec 11 11:26:37 GMT 2001


Jeremy Allison said:

> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 12:44:15PM +0000, David Lee wrote:
> 
> > So I'd like to encourage those members of the Samba team who are thinking
> > about VFS to consider whether we can, somehow, support multiple VFS layers
> > per share.
> 
> I'm thinking about it, but the semantics are very hard.
> 
> I'd rather get something out there that works well with
> one module, and then extend to do stacking in a later
> release, rather than delaying until we have a "perfect"
> interface.

What problems are there with the current code?  I'm running 2.2.1a with
a version 1 VFS module (jitlinks), and it works wonderfully.

Granted, jitlinks is a very simple module.

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