Global VFS modules?

Ken Cross kcross at nssolutions.com
Sun Jul 6 15:28:13 GMT 2003


> On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 23:38, Ken Cross wrote:
> > Samba-folk:
> > 
> > Is there any way to coerce a VFS module to be "Global", i.e., it 
> > applies
> to
> > *all* shares?  Having to make sure that "vfs objects" is always 
> > included
> is
> > not only a pain, it could lead to subtle problems that 
> could be a real 
> > nuisance.
> > 
> > I've thought of hacking loadparam to initialize to the 
> desired module, 
> > but that's clearly a hack.  Any better suggestions?
> 
> just putting it in the [globals] doesn't work?  
> 
> More interesting is ideas like allowing the VFS module to 
> specify what shares should be loaded and the like, but for 
> the current stuff, it is meant to work...
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 

Yes, but that sets the default, right?  If a "vfs objects" is set in a
section, won't that *replace* the one in globals (as opposed to merging
them)?  I'd be happy to be wrong, though...

Ken
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