VFS WORM module

Marc Muehlfeld samba at marc-muehlfeld.de
Mon Sep 16 22:28:54 CEST 2013


Am 16.09.2013 21:27, schrieb David Collier-Brown:
> The former could be done with a cron job and find -mtime N | chmod -w
> In this case it would wormify the file N days after it stopped changing,
> which is something that I'd have loved to have on a real WORM drive.

But on a share with some million of files, the cron find job could take
a long time to finish. That's why I thought a VFS module, that does the
write prevention on a layer between Samba and filesystem, would be the
better idea.



Regards,
Marc


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