[PATCH PROPOSAL] - remove vfs_scannedonly from samba 4.x source tree

[David Disseldorp]

Hi Robin,

On Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:46:32 +0200, Robin Hack wrote:

> Hello samba!
> 
> I played with vfs_scannedonly and I found that project looks almost dead
> from my point of view.
> 
> Scannedonly is divided to two parts:
>  * vfs_scannedonly - lives in samba source tree
>  * scannedonly daemon - lives at http://olivier.sessink.nl/scannedonly/
> 
> I tried to compile last version, scannedonly-0.21.tar, on fresh Debian 8
> without luck (I just blindly follow instruction on web pages). Scannedonly
> package are not present in fedora and debian distributions also...
> 
> I propose removal of this module from samba source tree.
> 
> My question is: I would like to know... Does anybody even use
> vfs_scannedonly/scannedonly daemon in samba 4.x?

vfs_scannedonly has largely been superseded in recent releases by
samba-virusfilter[1]. The developer, SATOH Fumiyasu (cc'ed), has
expressed an intention of getting samba-virusfilter into upstream Samba.

I'm in favour of removing scannedonly from the master branch, unless
someone steps up to maintain it.

Cheers, David

1. samba-virusfilter
   https://github.com/fumiyas/samba-virusfilter