External Sync VFS module

[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 6:25 AM, Alex Austin <aaustin at nevelex.com> wrote:
> Yes, but it is to a local daemon, so it shouldn't be any slower than a
> filesystem operation. Really, it's a way for me to be really lazy and not
> allocate any memory whatsoever.

Why not use a Unix domain socket?

Also, what is it really intended to do?

> On Apr 27, 2016 2:23 AM, "Volker Lendecke" <Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 04:51:51PM -0500, Alex Austin wrote:
>> > I've written a Samba VFS module to run an external file-sync program, and
>> > would appreciate feedback.
>>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but to me it seems the code opens and closes
>> a TCP connection for each modifying metadata operation. Is that fast
>> enough?
>>
>> Volker
>>
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