Confused about samba4 & s3fs

[Arvid Requate]

Hi,

maybe I should have explained more clearly, that s3fs is a service of 
the samba process that avoids the need to start the smbd separately 
and provides all the internal wiring necessary to authenticate against 
the samba backend. AFAIK s3fs efetively runs the same codebase as 
smbd. So you have to differentiate between three thigs here: first the 
"old style" of running smbd as a separate process, second the 
improved convenience of "s3fs" that runs/forks mostly the same code 
automatically from the samba process itself. And finally the "NTvfs" 
fileserver code, which AFAIK is based on an initiative mainly of Tridge to 
write a fileserver from scratch with an improved internal structure. The 
NTvfs code is still in source4, but it is not the default (as of beta1) as 
it is still in early stages of development and feature completeness as 
compared to the smbd/s3fs code.

Cheers,
Arvid

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