Using HyperV with Samba 4.2

[David Disseldorp]

On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 07:05:27 -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote:

> >>    ./configure --with-shared-modules=vfs_hyperv  
> >
> > The module implementation looks okay, but please use a different name
> > (e.g. vfs_fake_compression) or add the functionality to vfs_default.
> > It's incompatible with modules that provide proper compression support
> > as-is.  
> 
> Well, true, but then if you have a file system that does support
> compression, you would already have those functions and thus have no
> need for the supplied module.

Sure, but I would expect difficulties trying to convince customers that
they shouldn't enable a hyperv Samba VFS module on their Hyper-V
share.

Cheers, David