oddball question
James Peach
jpeach at samba.org
Wed Nov 15 23:40:58 GMT 2006
On Nov 15, 2006, at 9:29 AM, Tomasz Sienkiewicz wrote:
> Hi all,
> I was curious whether anyone attempted to create a SAMBA library
> that
> could be used alongside an application that would 'mimic' the file
> system.
> Basically, I am curious if anyone combined samba server with storage
> (internal to the application) ala static web-server.
> What I am trying to do is the following:
>
> 1. Create an app that pre-defines memory on filesystem, but
> keeps it
> protected
> 2. The app then populates the memory with data-files
> 3. Now the app can either act like a block device and can be
> mountable
> (think iso file) or alternately
> 4. It posts a samba share which then can be mounted
> transparently over
> the network on any system.
If the app can act like a block device, why not just mount it and
configure
Samba serve out the resulting filesystem?
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James Peach | jpeach at samba.org
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