How to move storage OEMs to Samba 4.0 ?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2012-06-22 at 08:35 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:10:16PM -0400, simo wrote:
> > 
> > I would say also that the actual vfs ABI should not change, that doesn't
> > mean the rest of samba internal are untouchable, but why penalize people
> > that use exclusively the VFS interface as published ?
> > 
> > I generally agree with all, although I would prefer if we made an effort
> > not to change the VFS ABI in a minor release. I am not to ask to be
> > strict about that, the vfs is large enough that we may not hold to the
> > promise, but I would like to avoid seeing deliberate ABI change without
> > a good reason .. "because we can"
> 
> I agree. I wouldn't break the ABI without good cause also, but
> we only promise API compatibility, just like the Linux kernel
> and for the same reason.

What is the VFS API?

Does it include all the other Samba functions that a VFS module could
potentially call?

(As an example of what I mean, a passdb module AB wrote recently started
calling become_root()/unbecome_root())

Andrew Bartlett

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