[Samba] Samba Non-Existent Filesystem Implementation

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Feb 21 11:58:55 MST 2014


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 01:47:03PM -0500, Dustin Oprea wrote:
> Is there a way to configure the Samba server in such a way that another
> library can provide the VFS (filesystem) API for a particular share? In
> this way, a physical filesystem doesn't have to back the share.

Yes, this is a common configuration used by cloud service
gateways. You have to provide a full VFS module (start
by looking at examples/VFS/skel_opaque.c.

Jeremy.


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